Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 5G-COMPLETE (A unified network, Computational and stOrage resource Management framework targeting end-to-end Performance optimization for secure 5G muLti-tEchnology and multi-Tenancy Environments) Reporting period: 2019-11-01 to 2021-04-30 Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project The transition towards the beyond-5G era requires a radical approach for contributing to the longer-term vision of mobile networks. In the context of post-crisis era, 5G and Beyond-5G networks aim to deliver significant changes to everyday living. From healthcare, optimized governance, citizen services and finance, to education and communication, a high-performing B5G infrastructure is of significance importance for the Age of Digital Societies. Furthermore, since ICT power consumption is an increasingly concerning the climate change, the prioritization of green frameworks in support of the Beyond 5G infrastructures should be also an important part of the research community goals in the era of B5G networks. The 5G-COMPLETE proposes an architectural approach that efficiently integrates a variety of advanced wireless technologies including digital and analog approaches as well as mmWave and THz solutions with optical and packet networking to support the required network connectivity for 5G. In addition, 5G-COMPLETE proposes full integration of network with compute and storage resources in support of the very demanding current and upcoming 5G services. The architectural principles of 5G-COMPLETE exploit the benefits of softwarization migrating from the notion of network elements to network functions, the separation of user plane and control plane functions and RAN disaggregation. In addition, 5G-COMPLETE proposes full integration of network with compute and storage resources in support of the very demanding current and upcoming 5G services. The architectural principles of 5G-COMPLETE exploit the benefits of softwarization migrating from the notion of network elements to network functions, the separation of user plane and control plane and Radio Access Network (RAN) disaggregation. Aside from the innovations boosting the network capacity and connectivity, 5G-COMPLETE put emphasis on the security pillar, a key dimension of the future mobile networks. In this direction, the project aims to deliver a security and resilience framework which ensures the secured execution of low-latency services at the edge of the network. Approaching the age of Quantum Computing, the definition of a quantum-resistant security framework becomes a top priority for the 5G-oriented infrastructure owners and operators, and 5G-COMPLETE attempts to address this strategy by delivering Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) solutions for optical transport through unbreakable cryptosystems. 5G-COMPLETE also addresses the challenge of trusted execution at the edge, by delivering enhanced isolation at the software level for applications running over the decentralized era of Edge Cloud enabled by powerful Mobile Edge Compute nodes. In this way, the mobile users will leverage from the edge processing capabilities for low-latency services, without sacrificing the security of their links. Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far Within the first period of the project, significant progress has been obtained in the development of network blocks and functions aiming to guarantee the innovations delivered by the 5G-COMPLTE infrastructure. 5G-COMPLETE has focused on the developed of baseband processor platforms capable to support the high-throughput needs of transport layer. For this purpose, analog/digital transport schemes are developed, combined with innovative optical nodes handling this kind of mixed connectivity (Hybrid Node). TSON extensions aim to deliver significant gains in terms of flexibility at different tiers of 5G-COMPLETE optical layer connectivity while the low-jitter operation of the network will be ensured through the TSN extensions delivered at different transport layers. 5G-COMPLETE also contributes towards Evolved RAN technologies in the 5G and Beyond landscape by delivering mmWave radio prototypes capable to support reconfigurable mesh topologies. The envisaged network of mesh/client nodes operating at 60GHz has been designed, the manufacturing of the prototypes has been successfully started and in the forthcoming months experimental validation is expected. The fully integrated THz transceivers provided by IHP have been also designed, and the novel blocks with the co-integrated radio frontends at 105GHz and active photonic blocks are going to deliver multi-Gbps point-to-point connectivity in support of B5G connectivity usecases. Moving to higher frequencies, radio frontends at 240GHz have been combined with powerful baseband processors allowing for real-time DSP processing at multiple data flows of 4GHz. New types of security and resilience have been also delivered in the 5G-COMPLETE infrastructure by implementing mechanisms at the edge adopting Network Coding theory and multi-path routing, by offering trusted deployment of critical workloads at the MEC nodes via hardware extensions and software attestation framework, and by introducing PQC cryptosystems for quantum-resistant optical transport connectivity. Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far) Regarding the potential impacts of the holistic 5G-COMPLETE solution, its end-to-end security framework promotes the digital economy through the B5G infrastructure in a way that cyber trust can be guaranteed. In more detail, the trusted execution at the edge will allow for the citizens to exploit the new era of services in a fully trusted environment. Besides the citizens, tech-SMEs, and entrepreneurship to promote their services based on trusted, serverless paradigms. These innovations in the security framework will be demonstrated in Bristol demo zone, where the provisioning of AR/VR (High Definition (HD)/4K) video services over a multi-domain, heterogeneous 5G network deployment will be demonstrated. Driven by the significant cost and energy consumption reductions of the pursued B5G infrastructure, 5G-COMPLETE contributes towards the development of resilient infrastructures, promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization, and fostering innovation. The energy-efficient joint computational and network resource planning aims to minimize the total network power expenditure. Preliminary design studies within the project have revealed significant energy savings following the energy-efficient resource planning. The targeted use cases of 5G-COMPLETE aim to deliver end-to-end solutions for making the cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable. The virtualized infrastructure of deployed in Athens test site are leveraged in the context of provisioning a Vertical Service (Advanced Surveillance Services) over Fixed-Wireless-Access 5G technologies to achieve fast response times -which is especially important for smart capabilities (e.g. object detection, classification and smart tracking, cameras’ synchronization, etc.)- as well as high levels of reliability and availability. This UC is applicable on various verticals such as smart cities, public safety, and facilities with multiple distributed “sites” (such as municipalities, factories, warehouses, University campuses, hospitals, Telco infrastructure sites, etc.), as well as civil protection. Contributing to the field of smart energy systems, 5G-COMPLETE demonstrator aims to deliver end-to-end provisioning of advanced Smart Energy Metering Services, comprising latency-critical and bandwidth-demanding services (high frequency sampling) as well as lower-requirement services (low frequency sampling energy metering). 5G-COMPLETE deployment options
