Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 5G-EPICENTRE (5G ExPerimentation Infrastructure hosting Cloud-nativE Netapps for public proTection and disaster RElief)
Période du rapport: 2021-01-01 au 2022-04-30
5G-EPICENTRE will lay the foundations for an open-standards, end-to-end (E2E) 5G experimentation platform, focused on software solutions that serve the needs of public protection and disaster relief. The envisioned platform will enable SMEs and developers to acquire knowledge regarding the latest 5G applications and approaches for first responders and crisis management, as well as to build up, and experiment with their solutions. The 5GEPICENTRE experimentation platform will be based on an open Service oriented Architecture (SoA), following the current best Development and Operations (DevOps) practices (e.g. containerization of micro-services), and will be able to accommodate and provide open access to a federation of evolutionary 5G networks’ resources, acting this way as a 5G open source repository for 5G-enabled PPDR solutions. Furthermore, it will incorporate security by design approaches, such as e.g. a trusted data interchange layer safeguarding the security and integrity of the data transferability and services intercommunication between the endpoints and the infrastructure.
Security-by-design toolkit: Graphical convention for software developers to support in the capturing of security-relevant information related to technological component design.
Project website and social networks:
Website: https://www.5gepicentre.eu/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5g-epicentre-project/
Twitter: 5Epicentre
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr9lQ5VhhMdaVh-QNG2H8g
Project handbook, quality plan & risk management: It includes a list of rules for everyday activities of the project, communication and file tools, email lists, formal file naming and project quality plan.
Data management plan (preliminary version): This document describes the adopted plan and measures for managing data within the project.
Project website and social networks:
Website: https://www.5gepicentre.eu/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/5g-epicentre-project/
Twitter: 5Epicentre
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr9lQ5VhhMdaVh-QNG2H8g
Project handbook, quality plan & risk management: It includes a list of rules for everyday activities of the project, communication and file tools, email lists, formal file naming and project quality plan.
Data management plan (preliminary version): This document describes the adopted plan and measures for managing data within the project.
5G-EPICENTRE expected results beyond the state of the art at the end of the project are:
- 5G-EPICENTRE represents an attempt to federate 5G testbed infrastructures across the EU with the
specific purpose to address the needs and demands of the public safety and emergency and disaster managementmarket needs.
- According a recent survey on the Phase 2 and Phase 3 5G-PPP projects, Cloud-native transformation still faces barriers, as well as a reluctance for adoption, with only a handful of projects utilizing K8s for CNF/VNF orchestration. 5G-EPICENTRE aims to accelerate such processes by utilizing K8s as both a VIM and VNF Manager, so as to optimally schedule core CNF/VNFs to run on the optimal available infrastructure; scale in and out on demand; and utilize container-level isolation and health monitoring, so as to rapidly restart instances in case of failure.
- In face of these facts, rather than opting for a centralized solution, 5G-EPICENTRE will rather consider
migrating mission-critical services and applications from the remote cloud to the network edge, thus bringing them closer to the end-users, so as to reduce communication delay and alleviate network bandwidth.
- 5G-EPICENTRE will explore various algorithms pertaining to optimal edge VNF placement, utilizing
lightweight container-based NetApp elements to maximise the amount of resources that can safely and reliably be instantiated in close proximity to the first responders/end users, so as to accommodate mission-critical and delay-sensitive traffic characteristic in PPDR scenarios.
- There are many anomaly detection techniques, often developed by industries or research centres for
specific application domains but there are still many factors that make the problem very challenging, such as finding the exact gap between normal and abnormal behaviours in different contexts and dealing with different application domains with different variant on the data.
- 5G-EPICENTRE will explore opportunities for 5G experiment large scale analytics’ insights and KPI
exploration, visualization and interaction using a wide range of smart surfaces, ranging from desktop environments to coherent interfaces using multiple interactive surfaces.
- To ensure that security considerations of a design will be considered, as well as that analysis and verification tasks can be performed at the design level, security aspects need to be explicitly represented within the design of the software of the 5G-EPICENTRE platform.
- 5G-EPICENTRE represents an attempt to federate 5G testbed infrastructures across the EU with the
specific purpose to address the needs and demands of the public safety and emergency and disaster managementmarket needs.
- According a recent survey on the Phase 2 and Phase 3 5G-PPP projects, Cloud-native transformation still faces barriers, as well as a reluctance for adoption, with only a handful of projects utilizing K8s for CNF/VNF orchestration. 5G-EPICENTRE aims to accelerate such processes by utilizing K8s as both a VIM and VNF Manager, so as to optimally schedule core CNF/VNFs to run on the optimal available infrastructure; scale in and out on demand; and utilize container-level isolation and health monitoring, so as to rapidly restart instances in case of failure.
- In face of these facts, rather than opting for a centralized solution, 5G-EPICENTRE will rather consider
migrating mission-critical services and applications from the remote cloud to the network edge, thus bringing them closer to the end-users, so as to reduce communication delay and alleviate network bandwidth.
- 5G-EPICENTRE will explore various algorithms pertaining to optimal edge VNF placement, utilizing
lightweight container-based NetApp elements to maximise the amount of resources that can safely and reliably be instantiated in close proximity to the first responders/end users, so as to accommodate mission-critical and delay-sensitive traffic characteristic in PPDR scenarios.
- There are many anomaly detection techniques, often developed by industries or research centres for
specific application domains but there are still many factors that make the problem very challenging, such as finding the exact gap between normal and abnormal behaviours in different contexts and dealing with different application domains with different variant on the data.
- 5G-EPICENTRE will explore opportunities for 5G experiment large scale analytics’ insights and KPI
exploration, visualization and interaction using a wide range of smart surfaces, ranging from desktop environments to coherent interfaces using multiple interactive surfaces.
- To ensure that security considerations of a design will be considered, as well as that analysis and verification tasks can be performed at the design level, security aspects need to be explicitly represented within the design of the software of the 5G-EPICENTRE platform.