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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

M2M

IoT

Flexible

Networks

Future Internet

Verticals(e.g.

space, IIoT)

Big Data

Road to comercial 5G

5G Vertical Strategy

Verticals Sectors and Associations

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https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-trials-roadmap/

https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-trials-roadmap/

Vertical Trials on-going/planned

Covering the whole Europe….

And between countries: the Cross-Border

automative corridors

ICT-17 Platforms

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

description

Upload

Submit for

validation

Manage

deployment

Get access to

testbed resources,

Monitor,

experiment

Define

experiment

5GinFIRE

Testbed

providers

Create

accoun

t

Authorize

account

Validate

experiment

Validate experiment

(feasibility schedule

dates, etc.)

Orchestrate

deployment

Schedule/

Create

deployment

Release

experiment

Access revoked

Results available

Manage resources/installations etc.

Iterate

SubmitApproved

Notify

Schedule etc.

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


Transportation

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Transportation

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Use Case 1: Critical and safe communications for Railway signaling


Transportation

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Use Case 1: Critical and safe communications for Railway signaling


Transportation

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Transportation

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Maintenance

Crew w/

tablet

On-board

Tablet on

Train


Energy

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Use Case 1: Monitoring and Maintenance of Power Substations


Energy

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PTS -

Rectory

PTS – Elect&Inf.

Dept.

PT


Energy

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PTS -

Rectory

PTS – Elect&Inf.

Dept.

PT


Energy

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PTS -

Rectory

PTS – Elect&Inf.

Dept.

PT


Energy

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PTS -

Rectory

PTS – Elect&Inf.

Dept.

PT


Energy

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PTS -

Rectory

PTS – Elect&Inf.

Dept.

PT


Energy

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PTS -

Rectory

PTS – Elect&Inf.

Dept.

PT


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


Pilots: real locations

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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


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)


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:


Innovative Vertical-orientedInterdomain CapabilitiesObjective

• Automated network service provisioning to verticals…

• …Composed by slices slices belonging to different domains

• Example

Operator A Operator B


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


Current approach

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Single operator handles inter-domain slicing and stitching on behalf of the vertical

- Vertical Slicer entity


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!


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


Our approach

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• Split the VS into

• CSMF

• NSMF

• Vertical has a CSMF

• Purchased from a telco manufacturer

• It interfaces with the operators

NSMF


Our approach

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• 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])

M2M

IoT

Flexible

Networks

Future Internet

Big Data

http://www.it.pt/tn-av

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