The following provides a brief summary of the progress made on the innovation streams where the project aims to create impact that is beyond state-of-the-art (SoTA):
IS1: Dynamic end-to-end slice management
o This innovation stream relates to efficient delivery of high-quality of service/experience (QoS/QoE) on complex 5G networks, through optimum delivery of network services. As such, contributions in this area are seen as being broadly applicable with potential for impact across a wide range of 5G services.
IS2: DevOps experimentation and service validation
o 5GMediaHUB focused on a DevOps-driven Testing-as-a-Service (TaaS) approach that extends the work of previous projects, such as 5G-TANGO and 5G-MEDIA that mainly focused on the development processes of 5G-based software. 5GMediaHUB instead focused on the Operations processes of launched services and their continuous performance monitoring, which are areas that have received insufficient attention.
IS3: QoE in 5G networks based on SDN and NFV
o The delivered a QoS/QoE Engine. The goal of this engine is to employ network and service KPIs to predict the client’s QoE, allowing the system to signal for video quality degradation, if and when required, to prevent stalling events.
IS4: Unified service orchestration in 5G PaaS
o 5GMediaHUB has defined a reference architecture for a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) abstraction layer for NetApps. This PaaS layer uses "cloud-native" design principles and is based on container technologies, meaning that the client utilising the PaaS layer does not manage the underlying infrastructure, including the network, servers, operating systems, storage, etc. and can instead focus on the application(s) being deployed on the platform.
IS5: Security framework applied using Software Defined Perimeters in 5G networks
o 5GMediaHUB has deployed, configured and integrated an open-source Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) software stack with the 5GMediaHUB Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI).
IS6: NetApps and Northbound APIs
o One of the key contributions from the project to realise this goal is the NetApps Repository application, which was developed as part of the 5GMediaHub platform. It allows developers to rapidly design, build and deploy their NetApps on 5G infrastructure. This represents a substantial step forward in terms of facilitating the NetApp/VNF onboarding process, supporting unchanged containerized and VM-based NetApps.
Moreover, 5GMediaHUB performed a number of activities to understand the potential market impact of 5GMediaHUB. The following elements have been covered:
1. an overview of the proposed 5GMediaHUB commercialisation strategy,
2. an overview of the market that the 5GMediaHUB project could potentially impact,
3. commercial partners’ exploitation plans,
4. proposed 5GMediaHUB Experimentation Facility business models and commercialization plan
