The work in the project has been divided into 5 Technical Work Packages (WPs).
WP1 was in charge of defining vertical use cases and designing the baseline architecture of 5GT. In the first period, WP1 specified the set of use cases and designed the initial architecture, which was finally completed in the second period and presented in D1.4. In addition, in the second period, we performed a techno-economic analysis assessing, through simulations in realistic scenarios, the market and business implications of 5GT for operators and service providers.
WP2 was in charge of the design and development of 5GT-MTP. In the first period, WP2 delivered its initial architecture, providing abstraction of resources and connectivity services to 5GT-SO. In the second period, 5GT-MTP introduced new features and building blocks, namely (i) local Placement Algorithms; (ii) interfaces with the monitoring platform, and (iii) support of MEC and RAN.
WP3 was responsible for the design and development of 5GT-VS. During the first period, an initial design was provided, focusing on: (i) definition of VSBs and translation into VSDs/NSDs, and (ii) initial design of arbitration algorithms. In the second period, 5GT-VS was extended with enhanced vertical support enabling (i) policy management; (ii) feedback from vertical apps; (iii) service configurations by the verticals; and (iv) vertical-driven service scaling and composition.
WP4 was in charge of the design and implementation of 5GT-SO. In the first period, an initial design of 5GT-SO was released, providing resource and service orchestration, for local and also across administrative domains (federation). To make optimal orchestration decisions, a number of placement algorithms were developed. During the second period, 5GT-SO was extended with (i) automated network service scaling; (ii) service composition and service federation; (iii) enhanced placement algorithms; and (iv)service assurance and SLA Management. In addition, WP4 developed a service monitoring platform.
The main goal of WP5 is to integrate all WP2, WP3, WP4 components and to validate the 5GT architecture design experimentally with selected use cases. The main work during the first period was the design and setup of the interconnection of the different test sites and the elaboration of an initial integration plan. The actual integration efforts
were made during the second period. The final results from the demonstrated use cases are reported in D5.4 including results from automotive, entertainment, e-health, e-industry and MNO/MVNO trials.
As a result of WP2, WP3, WP4 and WP5, the final software implementation of the 5G-VS, 5GT-SO, 5GT-MTP, and 5GT-Monitoring Platform has been published as open source on github:
https://github.com/5g-transformer/(opens in new window).
