5Growth is a 33-month collaborative project. The main objectives of the project are technical and business validation of 5G technologies through field-trials for vertical industries. Four vertical pilots across Industry 4.0 Transportation, and Energy will be field-trialed on four vertical-owned sites. To conduct the Trials that demonstrate the 5Growth specific vertical use cases, 5Growth makes use of the End-to-End connectivity platforms from to ICT-17-2018 projects: 5G EVE and 5G-VINNI, to perform end-to-end testing and validation of service KPIs and 5G capabilities. To interconnect with both ICT platforms, different integration approaches are explored.
Besides validating the current 5G technologies, another major aim is to develop new technological innovations to enhance the service provisioning and automation process for the verticals with an AI-driven Automated and Sharable 5G End-to-End Solution that will allow these industries to achieve simultaneously their respective key performance targets. Towards this aim, 5Growth is developing a set of innovations by extending the 5G-TRANSFORMER platform, to further enhance the vertical support through (i) enhanced E2E network slicing solutions which enables automated deployment and operation of slices, including 3GPP-defined RAN slices, customized to support individual specific service requirements of various vertical industries, (ii) closed-loop automation and SLA control for vertical services lifecycle management, and (iii) AI-driven end-to-end network solutions to jointly optimize RAN, Transport, Core and Cloud, Edge resources, across multiple technologies, multi-vendors and multi administrative domains (federation).
The objectives of the project are:
• Technical and business validation of 5G technologies in the selected four vertical pilots, following a field-trial-based approach on vertical sites (TRL 6-7).
• To design and implement a platform, and the related components, interfaces and algorithms, to empower verticals to provision 5G connectivity and services directly at the verticals’ sites.
• To develop AI-driven E2E service orchestration solutions to enable automated multi-level, cross-domain, hierarchical service orchestration with multi-domain management of resources with seamless integration at vertical sites with existing platforms.
• Tight integration with ICT-17 facilities for E2E testing and validating 5G capabilities.
• Vertical-oriented trial-based assessment, incl. 5G-PPP KPIs.
• Communication, dissemination, and exploitation (incl. standardization) of 5Growth results.