Goal
The focus of 5G-MoNArch is to develop a flexible, adaptable, and programmable mobile network architecture for 5G, and innovative features for industrial (resilience & security) and media & entertainment (resource elasticity) use cases.
The focus of the Turin Touristic City testbed is on the provisioning of different application-specific network slices that use a common physical / virtualized infrastructure, and to implement the resource elasticity features developed within the project
Applications
- Advanced multimedia and entertainment services
– Interactive virtual reality – based live event participation including real-time voice (eMBB + URLLC)
– 360° real-time video streaming (eMBB)
– Cooperative media production and control (eMBB + URLLC)
Parameter
- No specific parameters will be tested but the applicability of network slicing and resouce elasticity in 5G for multimedia & entertainment services and applications
Framework conditions
- NFV and SDN-enabled mobile networks
- Network slicing
- CP/UP separation
- Flexible allocation of computational and network resources
Technology
- Virtual Network Function enhancements
- Graceful degradation of computational and network resources – adaptive load management
- Network slice orchestration algorithm enhancements – infrastructure awareness, multiplexing gains, service awareness, computational load awareness
- Network slice aware performance monitoring of network and computing resources
Test equipment
- 5G UE (x86-based baseband unit, RF unit)
- Experimental 5G base station (baseband unit, RF unit, RF amplifier; Huawei)
- Operating frequency band 42 or 43 (TBD)
- Experim. PHY/MAC + higher layer SW
- Edge Cloud (x86-based)
- 360° Camera, Oculus Rift+Touch, graphics workstation for applications
Target group
- Equipment vendors
- (Virtual) Mobile Network Operators
- Network slice providers
- Media & Entertainment verticals