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Research for beyond the Early 5G
Network – EU and PT
Daniel Corujo, Rui L Aguiar
Porto ISEP 2020
This project has received funding from the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation programme under grant agreement No 856709
Outline
• 5G – all verticals invited!• How to get into it?
• The 5GROWTH example
• 5G – Baseline for further evolutions
• How do we progress
• And for the future?
• Important aspects
• (non) Conclusions
ATNoG
Research group dedicated to communication networks, related services, applications and its
traffic
• Total ~60 members– 10 PhD researchers + 3 External
– 11 PhD Students
– 44 researchers
– ~50 publications/year
• Strong cooperation with international groups and companies
ATNOG – Advanced Telecommunications and
Networking group
• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer – Communications
• Multiple lines of work
• Research
• Industry cooperation
• Standardization
• High practical component
• Testbeds, implementations, tools...
• Open Source contributions
• https://github.com/ATNoG
• Test infrastructures
5G Vertical Strategy
Verticals Sectors and Associations
11/03/2020 7
https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-trials-roadmap/
Other example: 5GinFire
5GinFIRE Reference Model Architecture
• Based on existing Open Source projects– e.g. Openstack, Opendaylight
• Based on ETSI reference architecture of MANO functionality – Open Source MANO
• Introducing and integrating infrastructures from verticals
• Generalizing the concept of VNFs into accounting for functionalities other than network, namely, for verticals, aka VxFs– universal management of virtual
functions
• Automated deployment of VxFsand creation of VxF stores
Experimenter
5GinFIRE operations
Select/Deploy
VxFs
Experiment
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providers
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Validate experiment
(feasibility schedule
dates, etc.)
Orchestrate
deployment
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deployment
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D2.1 – 5GinFIRE Experimental Infrastructure Architecture and 5G Automotive Use Case [M4]
More than Technology:
Experimentation Process Workflow
The 5GROWTH example
http://5growth.eu/
This project has received funding from the
EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No
856709
Ongoing - Two main verticals
addressed• Transportation
• Use Case 1: Critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
• Use Case 2: Non-critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
• Energy
• Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
• Use Case 2: Critical signaling and data exchange across smart metering
infrastructure
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Transportation
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Use Case 2: Non-critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
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Transportation
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Use Case 2: Non-critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
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Transportation
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Use Case 1: Critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
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Transportation
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Use Case 1: Critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
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Transportation
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Use Case 2: Non-critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
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Transportation
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Use Case 2: Non-critical and safe communications for Railway signaling
Maintenance
Crew w/
tablet
On-board
Tablet on
Train
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Energy
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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
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Energy
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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
PTS -
Rectory
PTS – Elect&Inf.
Dept.
PT
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Energy
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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
PTS -
Rectory
PTS – Elect&Inf.
Dept.
PT
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Energy
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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
PTS -
Rectory
PTS – Elect&Inf.
Dept.
PT
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Energy
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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
PTS -
Rectory
PTS – Elect&Inf.
Dept.
PT
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Energy
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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
PTS -
Rectory
PTS – Elect&Inf.
Dept.
PT
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Energy
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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations
PTS -
Rectory
PTS – Elect&Inf.
Dept.
PT
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Energy
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Use Case 2: Critical signaling and data exchange across smart metering infrastructure• Last Gasp information reads transmission
• Device (meters and sensors) synchronization
• Dispatch of information to teams and control sensors
• Minimize duration of issue
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Support Infrastructure
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IT Datacenter• 500+ physical cores
• 7+ Terabyte of RAM
• 350+ Terabyte of storage space
• Supported by 4 Gigabit switches and 5 10Gigabit switches
• The platform is running OpenStack Cloud Platform (Ocata release)
• Orchestrated via OSM (release FOUR)
• High speed fiber optic links
• OpenFlow-enabled switching (currently with HPE, Aruba and Pica8 switches) and OpenDaylight controllers
• Access wireless testbed, composed by 24 fixed and controllable nodes located at the rooftop of IT Aveiro with a mobile robot
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Pilot Integration Mechanisms
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5GCore• open5GCore
• RAN• 1st stage: emulated gNB and UE
• 2nd stage: OpenAIR Interface (OAI-H/L and USRP SDR)
• RF amplifiers towards the Aveiro Harbout
• Edge Computing (MEC)
• Cloud-Native mobile network environment• VNF Lifecycle management
• Orchestration
• Network Slicing (Core/RAN)
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Pilot Integration Mechanisms
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5GCore• open5GCore
• RAN• 1st stage: emulated gNB and UE
• 2nd stage: OpenAIR Interface (OAI-H/L and USRP SDR)
• RF amplifiers towards the Aveiro Harbout
• Edge Computing (MEC)
• Cloud-Native mobile network environment• VNF Lifecycle management
• Orchestration
• Network Slicing (Core/RAN)
In collaboration with activities
and/or partners from research
projects:
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Innovative Vertical-orientedInterdomain CapabilitiesObjective
• Automated network service provisioning to verticals…
• …Composed by slices slices belonging to different domains
• Example
Operator A Operator B
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Innovative Vertical-orientedInterdomain Capabilities
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Objective• Automated network service provisioning to verticals…
• …Composed by slices slices belonging to different domains
• Example
Operator A Operator B
End to end slice
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Current approach
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Single operator handles inter-domain slicing and stitching on behalf of the vertical
- Vertical Slicer entity
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Current approach
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Single operator handles inter-domain slicing and stitching on behalf of the vertical
- Vertical Slicer entity
Pros:
- Simplicity for the vertical
- Leverage existing inter-operator interactions
Cons:
- Vertical is billed a final price
- Vertical has no direct saying on inter-operator details
- Vertical has no choice!
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Our approach
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Provide the vertical with simple, yet powerful, means to select service provisioning from different domains and stitch them
Network Slice
Sub-slice A Sub-slice B
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Our approach
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Provide the vertical with simple, yet powerful, means to select service provisioning from different domains and stitch them
• Split the VS into
• CSMF
• NSMF
• Vertical has a CSMF
• Purchased from a telco manufacturer
• It interfaces with the operators
NSMF
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Our approach
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Provide the vertical with simple, yet powerful, means to select service provisioning from different domains and stitch them
• Current challenges
• NSMF Location Discovery
• SLA dissemination from vertical to the
operators
• Slice stitching
Important aspects
• 5G – besides NR – will rely heavily in SDN, NFV and overall
cloud concepts, as the only way to support multiple
verticals
• This core is a technology that promises to address a large
set of problems, presenting cost effective solutions for
multiplexing at different layers, and to integrate different
vertical models.
• Large-scale solutions in open environments require still a
large set of developments both at fundamental concepts
and in standardization
(non) Conclusions
• 5G is a work in progress– We even do not need to talk about 6G
for that
• Promises, promises….– For verticals, for telcos…
– Still unfulfilled
• Work ahead– In all areas!
Thank you for your attention!
(and we welcome visiting or permanent researchers.
Just contact [email protected])