The fifth generation of mobile technology (5G) is positioned to address the demands and business contexts of IMT 2020 and beyond. Standards Development Organizations (SDOs), industry fora and research projects have identified as common ground the need to i) enhance the network architecture, in view of emerging technologies and features , and ii) push the envelope of performance, from network and user perspective, towards ultimate capabilities far beyond 4G, in support of a wide range of innovative use cases for various types of verticals. In this direction, under the 5G PPP Programme, Phase 1 projects have mapped the 5G requirements to specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and formulated the overall 5G architecture that will achieve these KPIs. The ongoing 5G PPP Phase 2 projects are extending the work done in Phase 1 projects, by contributing to a selective experimentation of different technologies needed for the validation of the 5G architecture. With significant contribution from the research work of 5G PPP projects, 3GPP released recently early versions of the 5G standard incorporating end-to-end advances for the mobile network. In addition, the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G-IA), has already defined the roadmap towards the 5G Pan-European trials .
Irrefutably, the “Genesis of 5G” has entered the crucial phase of experimentation, and currently faces the challenge to validate the 5G network KPIs and verify the 5G technologies with an end-to-end approach. Towards this objective, a key challenge is to integrate all the highly diverse results and technologies from EU, global as well as internal (corporate) R&D projects, to “glue together” the 5G picture and unveil the potential of a truly full-stack, end-to-end 5G platform, able to meet the defined KPI targets.
In this context, the main goal of 5GENESIS will be to validate 5G KPIs for various 5G use cases, in both controlled set-ups and large-scale events. This will be achieved by bringing together results from a considerable number of EU projects as well as the partners’ internal R&D activities in order to realise an integrated End-to-end 5G