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Marius Corici, Giuseppe Carella, Dragos Vingarzan, Alexandru Russu, Julius Mueller

and the other

Fraunhofer FOKUS Institute / Technische Universität Berlin

4th Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, June 19th, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal

EPC as a Service Demonstration

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Different stakeholders have different opinions

on the optimal EPC virtualisation

1:1 Virtualization

Separating User Plane

Merging Functions (N:1)

Splitting Functions (1:N)

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Demo Architecture

VM

VM

VM

MME

SGW-C

PGW-C

VM

HSS

VM

DNS

SGW-U PGW-U

Service Orchestrator

VM

eNB

VM

UE Gen

VM

PGW-U

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Fraunhofer FOKUS OpenEPC Rel. 5: Mirroring

the Future Operator Core Network

• OpenEPC includes the main functions of 3GPP Evolved Packet Core (3GPP Release 812)

• The principles of standard alignment, configurability and extensibility have been respected in the overall architecture and in the specific components implementation

• OpenEPC Rel. 5 enables the establishment of small operator network testbeds including

Core network mobility support (GTP, PMIP)

Deep integration with real LTE, 3G, 2G and WiFi

AAA for 3GPP and non-3GPP accesses

Policy and Charging Control

Access network selection

Common mobile equipment support

PLEASE NOTE: OpenEPC does not claim 100%

standard compliance, but allows for early prototyping

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Fraunhofer FOKUS platforms come to meet the

R&D requirements

OpenEPC was especially designed for addressing R&D:

Enabling the hands-on understanding of core network technologies, resulting in new

concepts

Filling the gap between research and product development by providing initial realistic

environment prototyping

– Providing trust in research through realistic environments testbeds

– Mirroring operator core network functionality

Providing standard interfaces for product prototyping

Providing missing components for large integrated testbeds and trials

Providing the counterpart functionality for product realization

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Toolkits used for the demonstration

FOKUS OpenEPC – practical implementation of the 3GPP Evolved Packet Core addressing testbed deployments and R&D needs www.openepc.net

FOKUS OpenSDNCore – implementing the Service Orchestrator logic, interfacing with Heat and OpenStack for provisioning of virtual resources – www.opensdncore.org

OpenStack providing the cloud related functionalities

Zabbix providing the cloud related functionalities for monitoring

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4th Workshop on Mobile Cloud Networking, June 19th, 2014, Lisbon, Portugal

EPC as a Service Demonstration

Demo time!