GÉANT Testbed Service External Domain Ports: A Demo on Multiple Domain Connectivity

Expanding GÉANT Testbeds Service to Support Pan-European 5G Network Slices for Research in the EuWireless Project

“…e third architecture, chosen as the basis of the EuWireless infrastructure, allows great exibility in the selection and con guration of the network elements, but a key component is still missing: the coordination layer that manages and orchestrates all the di erent resources into a single uni ed slice to be o ered to the experimenter, ensuring link quality and network isolation between di erent experiments. During the evaluation of available standards and technologies for this purpose, a new architecture developed by the European research network GÉANT emerged, namely, the GÉANT Testbeds Service (GTS) [10,11]. is section explains how to use GTS to implement the selected architecture.…”

“…e main objective of the project is to create a research environment capable of providing access to the usually hidden internal mechanism of the networks and also coexisting with commercial operators, without interfering with commercial exploitation. In that direction, this paper addresses how to implement 5G network slices for research at a large scale reusing a mature technology for automatic creation of network testbeds, namely, the GÉANT Testbed Service (GTS) [10,11]. GTS is already being used by the GÉANT research community to seamlessly create virtual networks between different locations across Europe, and, with some modifications, it could be able to integrate radio resources, spectrum sharing, and mobile network entities into a single homogeneous user interface.…”