Research and verification of lightweight 5GC on the public cloud

Abstract

5GC migration to the cloud has become the common choice of operators and telecom equipment providers. Compared to the complete 5G core (5GC) of the large network, the lightweight 5GC is better suited for the public cloud. Low cost, easy operation and maintenance, resource flexibility, and business agility have become the main drivers of lightweight 5GC deploy on the public cloud. This paper systematically summarizes the deployment scheme of lightweight 5GC on the public cloud and selects the central cloud sharing mode for experimental verification. It designs two links: cloud process test and cloud function test, evaluates the complexity of lightweight 5GC on the cloud and to summarize the current problems on the cloud through experiments. The results show that lightweight 5GC on the public cloud is feasible.