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5G Mobile Network Architecture for diverse services, use cases, and applications in 5G and beyond

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Objective

Motivation: The expected diversity of services and use cases in 5G requires a flexible, adaptable, and programmable architecture. While the design of such an architecture has been addressed by 5G-PPP Phase 1 at a conceptual level, it must be brought into practice in Phase 2. To this end, 5G-MoNArch will (i) evolve 5G-PPP Phase 1 concepts to a fully-fledged architecture, (ii) develop prototype implementations and (iii) apply these prototypes to representative use cases.

Approach: 5G-MoNArch architecture design will combine Phase 1 concepts (such as virtualisation, slicing and orchestration of access and core functions) with three enabling innovations that fill gaps not ad-dressed in Phase 1: (i) inter-slice control and cross-domain management, to enable the coordination across slices and domains, (ii) experiment-driven optimization, to leverage experimental results to design highly performing algorithms, and (iii) cloud-enabled protocol stack, to gain flexibility in the orchestration of virtualised functions.

Testbeds: The devised architecture will be deployed in two testbeds: (i) the sea port, representative of a vertical industry use case, and (ii) the touristic city, representative of a mobile operator deployment. For each testbed, 5G-MoNArch will instantiate the architecture and complement it with a use case specific functionality – the two functional innovations of 5G-MoNArch: (i) resilience and security, needed to meet the sea port requirements, and (ii) resource elasticity, to make an efficient use of the resources in the touristic city.

Impact: 5G-MoNArch has a very high potential for commercial impact, including enhanced products (e.g., orchestrators or edge-cloud RAN), novel services (enabled by network slicing) and opportunities for new market players. To exploit this potential, 5G-MoNArch has elaborated a thorough and realistic innovation plan that includes patents and standards.

Programme(s)

H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Topic(s)

ICT-07-2017 - 5G PPP Research and Validation of critical technologies and systems

Call for proposal

H2020-ICT-2016-2

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Funding Scheme

RIA - Research and Innovation action

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NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS GMBH &CO KG

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Werinherstrasse 91
81541 Munchen

Germany

Activity type

Other

EU Contribution

€ 929 244,66

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NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL GMBH

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Werinherstr 91
81541 Munchen

Germany

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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)

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UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 669 294,24

DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 746 459,21

NOKIA BELL LABS FRANCE

France

EU Contribution

€ 327 594,35

HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES DUESSELDORF GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 580 464,30

TELECOM ITALIA SPA

Italy

EU Contribution

€ 416 220,79

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (UK) LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 558 834,99

ATOS SPAIN SA

Spain

EU Contribution

€ 458 469,08

HAMBURG PORT AUTHORITY

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 299 177,75

COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES

France

EU Contribution

€ 547 985,69

ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 330 610,78

MOBICS TELECOMMUNICATION AND CONSULTING SERVICES SA

Greece

EU Contribution

€ 261 840,41

REAL WIRELESS LIMITED

United Kingdom

EU Contribution

€ 581 290

NOMOR RESEARCH GMBH

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 665 727,50

TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET KAISERSLAUTERN

Germany

EU Contribution

€ 307 875

Project information

5G-MoNArch

Grant agreement ID: 761445

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 July 2017
End date

30 June 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 681 088,75
EU contribution

€ 7 681 088,75

Coordinated by:

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS GMBH &CO KG

Germany

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - 5G-MoNArch (5G Mobile Network Architecture for diverse services, use cases, and applications in 5G and beyond)

Reporting period: 2017-07-01 to 2018-06-30

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

5G mobile networks are characterised by a diversity of requirements and services, which can only be satisfied with a flexible, adaptable, and programmable architecture. 5G-MoNArch designs a 5G fully-fledged mobile network architecture, develops use cases based on specific innovations, and deploys these use cases into real-world testbeds (see Figure 1). The ultimate goal is to provide a novel 5G network architecture that can reach out to new economic sectors and verticals with the corresponding societal and economic impact.
5G-MoNArch builds on virtualisation, network slicing and orchestration to enable the instantiation of tailored network slices. Three enabling innovations extend the baseline architecture: i) inter-slice control and cross-domain management, to enable coordination across slices and domains; ii) experiment-driven optimisation, to leverage the design of high performing algorithms; and iii) telco-cloud-enabled protocol stack, to gain flexibility in the orchestration of virtualised functions.
Two functional innovations complement the common network functionality, to allow slices with specialised functionality: i) resilience and security, targeting a vertical industry use case with strong requirements on reliable, resilient and secure communication; ii) resource elasticity, targeting a media & entertainment use case where the network needs to quickly adapt to changing application and usage characteristics.
To bring concepts and innovations to practice, 5G-MoNArch implements two testbeds: The Smart Sea Port (for the vertical industry use case) and the Touristic City (for the media & entertainment use case). The functionality comprised in each of the testbeds is illustrated in Figure 2.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

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)

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Project information

5G-MoNArch

Grant agreement ID: 761445

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 July 2017
End date

30 June 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 681 088,75
EU contribution

€ 7 681 088,75

Coordinated by:

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS GMBH &CO KG

Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Initial overall architecture and concepts for enabling innovations

Initial overall architecture and concepts for enabling innova-tions

Baseline architecture based on 5G-PPP Phase 1 results and gap analysis

Documentation of requirements and KPIs and definition of suitable evaluation criteria

First report on dissemination, standards, and exploitation plan.

Methodology for verification and validation of 5G-MoNArch architectural innovations

Initial resilience and security analysis

Testbed setup and 5G-MoNArch technologies demonstrated

Initial design of resource elastic functions

Publications

Conference proceedings (10)

Slice-Aware Elastic Resource Management

Author(s): Sina Khatibi, Irina Balan, Dimitris Tsolkas

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018

Mobile Network Architecture: End-to-End Network Slicing for 5G and Beyond

Author(s): Lars Christoph Schmelz, Albert Banchs, Mauro Boldi, Ömer Bulakci, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, David Gutiérrez-Estévez, Diomidis S. Michalopoulos, Jose Enrique G. Blazquez, Heinz Droste, Simon Fletcher

Published in: "Wireless World Research Forum Meeting #39", 2017

Enabling Vertical Industries Adoption of 5G Technologies: a Cartography of Evolving Solutions

Author(s): Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Panagiotis Gouvas, Eleni Fotopoulou, George Tsiolis, Thanos Xirofotos, Jose Bonnet, Gino Carrozzo, Stamatia Rizou, Anastasius Gavras, Maria Barros Weiss, Xavier Costa-Perez, Athul Prasad, Marco Gramaglia, Anna Tzanakaki, Dimitra Simeonidou, John Cosmas, Mikael Fallgren, Raul Muñoz, Ricard Vilalta

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2018

Cognitive Network Fault Management Approach for Improving Resilience in 5G Networks

Author(s): Borislava Gajic, Christian Mannweiler, Diomidis S. Michalopoulos

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018

Modelling of Computational Resources for 5G RAN

Author(s): Sina Khatibi, Kunjan Shah, Mustafa Roshdi

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2018

The Economic drivers for network elasticity

Author(s): Julie Bradford, Simon Fletcher

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018

5G Island for Network Resilience and Autonomous Failsafe Operations

Author(s): Bin Han, Marcos Rates Crippa and Hans Schotten

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018

Overall 5G-MoNArch Architecture and Implications for Resource Elasticity

Author(s): D. Gutierrez-Estevez, Ö. Bulakci, Q. Wei, C. Mannweiler, M. Gramaglia, M. Shariat, P. Arnold, N. di Pietro, G. Dandachi, D. Tsolkas

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018

Dynamic Deployment of Virtual Network Functions in Heterogeneous Telco Clouds

Author(s): Antonio De Domenico, Nicola di Pietro, Ghina Dandachi, and Emilio Calvanese Strinati

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018

On the Benefits of Bringing Cloud-Awareness to Network Virtual Functions

Author(s): P. Serrano, Marco Gramaglia, Dario Bega, David Gutierrez-Estevez, Gines Garcia-Aviles and Albert Banchs

Published in: European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018

Peer reviewed articles (2)

Slice as an Evolutionary Service: Genetic Optimization for Inter-Slice Resource Management in 5G Networks

Author(s): Bin Han, Ji Lianghai, Hans D. Schotten

Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 6, 2018, Page(s) 33137-33147, ISSN 2169-3536

DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2846543

LAA as a Key Enabler in Slice-Aware 5G RAN: Challenges and Opportunities

Author(s): Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Omer Bulakci, Chenghui Peng, Jiayin Zhang, Yuan Xia

Published in: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Issue 2/1, 2018, Page(s) 29-35, ISSN 2471-2825

DOI: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.2018.1700061

Project information

5G-MoNArch

Grant agreement ID: 761445

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 July 2017
End date

30 June 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 681 088,75
EU contribution

€ 7 681 088,75

Coordinated by:

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS GMBH &CO KG

Project information

5G-MoNArch

Grant agreement ID: 761445

Project website

Status

Ongoing project

Start date

1 July 2017
End date

30 June 2019

Funded under:

H2020-EU.2.1.1.

Overall budget:

€ 7 681 088,75
EU contribution

€ 7 681 088,75

Coordinated by:

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS GMBH &CO KG

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