5GTNF WORKSHOP

Jose Costa-Requena

28/08/2020

5G FORCE PARTNERS

• Academic partners

• Industry partners

• Mobile operators and regulators

5G FORCE

• 5G infrastructure fills the gap between laboratory-based 5G testing environments and commercial network deployments in real deployment across the campus.

• 5G platform built together with industry vendors offer trials tailored infrastructure configurations for telecom and vertical industries and scientific community

• Facilitate the deployment of new use cases for verticals to support industry players to monetize investment in 5G mobile networks

• Engage SME, start-ups and industry players to test the benefits of 5G features with open platform for experimentation (e.g. hackathons)

5G FORCE- Finnish Research infrastructure

ODC/Oulu

Disributed 5GTNEPC components

VTTOulu/5GTN+

Disributed 5GTNEPC components

University

Oulu/5GTN+

Helsinki UniversityKumpula TAKE5

CSC/ESpoo

Nokia EPCOulu/Rusko

CORNETCentria UAS/Ylivieska

Trial network

Tampere

TUAS/TurkuCORNET

AALTO Espoo/TAKE-5

VTT Espoo/TAKE-5

Nokia Karaportti/TAKE-5

CWDMMux

CWDMMux

FUNETDWDM

FUNETDWDM

NetAct/iOMS

Nokia SNRDistributed 5GTNEPC Components

OpenEPCEPC simulator

Willab

1Gb1Gb

1Gb

FUNET IP router

FUNET IP router

Nokia /TRe

FUNET IP router

1Gb

1Gb(10Gb)

10Gb

Router at Aalto/Nokia

Managed&Owned

IP router (L3)VPNTBD

Dedicated lightpath/VLAN (L2)

WP1:5GTNF/phase3 Ecosystem Coordination

- Coordination of cooperation with vertical platforms and projects

- Dissemination and exploitation support

- Micro-operator model

- Management of the platform project

WP2 URLLC and Industrial Internet

- E2E network slicing

- Service based architecture, cloudification and Multi-access Edge computing

- Industrial Internet

- Massive scale autonomous IoT networks

- E2E Reliability for URLLC

- URLLC standardisation

5G Research Areas

WP3: Radio Technology enablers

- Positioning and Tracking

- RAN support for aerials and non-terrestrial networks

- Multi-RAT Mobility and Connectivity

- mmWave massive MIMO Radio

- New radio enablers for dense 5G networks

WP4: Artificial Intelligence

- Network Management diagnosis and self-healing

- Mobility management and radio beam management

- Media & Entertainment

- AI integration to verticals

5G Research Areas

WP5: Service security privacy and data management-

- Roaming Security

- AI Applications in 5G Security

- DoS Vulnerabilities and Defenses in 5G

- Cyber-Security interface for verticals

WP6: Validation and Impact

- Platform orchestration manager

- Cross-platform deployment and management

- Verticals integration and technology test

5G Research Areas

• Megasense deployed on Aalto slicing framework and measurements taken developed into magazine paper and submitted

• Slicing framework using docker containers to emulate multiple domains are ready

• VXLAN functionality between domains ongoing

• Creation of mgt interface between domains

• Smart algorithms for enabling a smart cloud native environment by leveraging deep reinforcement learning developed

• Efficient scheduling algorithm for enabling federated multi-cluster cloud deployment developed and magazine paper submitted based on generated results

• Re-working the submitted magazine paper: concentrate on newly approved ETSI DECT-2020 + compare multi-hop and single-hop solutions performance

• ITU-R WP5D: Wirepas presented evaluation

• ITU-R WP5D: URLLC results supported by France; mMTC results need external evaluation

• Implement Packet combining - so that transmitter can send multiple packet in single transmission if there is data in the buffer

WP2 URLLC and Industrial Internet

WP3 Radio Technology enablers

Main highlights include:1. Several 3GPP Standardization Contributions2. Publications (15+ conf. and journal articles) 3. Various measurements and implementations of experimental 5G systems

The topics are:

• PHY layer pre-5G system following Rel 15 stand-alone mode and characterization of the computation times and mid-haul and fronthaul latencies.

• Experiments on UAV measurements of outdoor interference from indoor 5G systems

• Development of MIMO array from 4 to 16 antennas and performing indoor tests.

• mmW antenna measurements with new antenna measurement system

• Beam synthesis to improve performance of zero forcing in multibeam scenario

• Prototype and design of LO multipliers and LO routings of 5G RFIC transceiver

• Contributions (Rel-16 finalization) to 3GPP RAN1/2/3/4 WG February and April meetings on Massive MIMO, Dynamic TDD, Dual Connectivity and Carrier Aggregation

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WP3 Radio Technology enablers

…continuing the topics:

• Analysis of channel non-reciprocity in cell-free mMIMO to cover also ZF based precoding methods

• Developing new methods for PAR reduction with OFDM and mixed-numerology OFDM

• Developing new methods for filtered-OFDM and filtered-DFT-s-OFDM for 5G long term evolution

• Further research on phase noise estimation/cancellation methods

• Preparations for new 5G related UAV measurements

• 6G NTN concept development

• Investigation of mobility challenges for NTN networks

• UAV-Aided Interference Assessment for Private 5G NR Deployments

• MulteFire Alliance 60 GHz study contributions (channel model, parameters, calibration results…)

• Performing analysis of predictability of the user mobility and assessing its impact

on the positioning accuracy and ability to reconstruct the missing observations

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WP4 Artificial Intelligence

• Designing and studying a machine learning model lifecycle management system• Collaborating AI works with verticals• Realtime Monitoring of network devices and data processing on the Edge. • QoS and data traffic Anomaly detection using AI and improving QoS for vertical applications• Using AI to optimized mobile network testing• Utilizing 5G for low cost sensors• Introduced a novel iterative method for updating channel chart

• Achieved sub-meter 5G positioning model from RSR power using machine learning • Design a framework for scalable mobile AR application continues learning• Studying QoS and lower layer information for efficient media transmission • Collaborating with other projects (5G VIIMA, Megasense etc.)

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WP5 Service security privacy and data management

• Aalto/Comnet set up the first SCION network on virtual machines in Finland and has started testing the technology

• Aalto/5GFORCE contributed to new Open Internet Guidelines for National Regulatory Authorities, published by BEREC in June 2020

• Aalto published a new version of customer edge switching on Ubuntu 18• Re-training and validation of the Android APK classifier; its verdicts are available via

the Karma API (from F-Secure)• For Karma, the object reputation delivery service, the data coverage has been

extended with additional network resource reputation data.• For Karma API, support of information caching added

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WP5 Service security privacy and data management-

• F-Secure and UH study on IoT device profiling based on communication patterns for detecting anomalous communication. A prototype is ready

• Design of parental control solution for MNOs (UH)• Ericsson has contributed to the roaming security solution of 3GPP rel-16• Telco core honeypot prototyping complete, architectural design refined and finalized

(Nokia)• Hardware and software stack integrity measurement and verification system for

IoT/Cloud environment created with sophisticated visualization and demonstration capabilities (Nokia)

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WP6 Validation and Impact

• 5G capability in all testbed sites in Oulu, Ylivieska, Tampere, Turku, and Espoo. Indoors and outdoors coverage.

• Installations using Non-standalone Architecture (NSA) with 5G radios in 3.5 GHz band. Different LTE anchor bands used on the sites, such as 2600, 1800, 2100, 700 MHz FDD and 2300 MHz TDD.

• Different core instances (5G capab.) available at the sites. User traffic available locally or can be routed further to other sites.

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WP6 Validation and Impact

• On-going testing, measuring and fine-tuning of different network parameters and configurations. Enhancements to coverage areas.

• On-going testing of different UEs (phones, modems, etc.).• Interconnecting testbed sites (some are already) to enable flexible

radio network sharing and remote services.• Planning of Standalone Architecture (SA) and mmW radio

installations and early experiments.

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5G FORCE Outcome

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State of the art 5G system with both commercial and prototype solutions to support verticals and companies to deploy services

2 x 5G RRH

5G 3.5GHz

FPRB = Power for 4G and

5G RRH

LTE 2600

Antenna

Väre roof RKK2419 1:2 → OIH-talo 13:14Väre roof RKK2419 3:4 → OIH-talo 17:18

5G FORCE Outcome

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Provide an ecosystem for local companies to experiment and explore 5G benefits

Finland

AMF gNB

APP Server

Intercontinental Internet Line (Seoul-Helsinki)

230~240 msec RTT, 1~10Gbps

UPF

South Korea

SMF

Signalling

User plane

gNBUPF

The 5G Force ecosystem also provides international visibility for international projects and cooperation

THANK YOU!!

Jose Costa-Requena

28/08/2020