5GENESIS
Limassol Platform
Contact Info
Please send your vertical industry inquiry concerning ICT-19-2019 collaboration to Dr. Georgios Gardikis (Space Hellas Cyprus Ltd) at the following e-mail address limassol@5genesis.eu
Country/Countries
Cyprus
Platform Objectives
The Limassol 5G platform will integrate several infrastructures in the city of Limassol, Cyprus, in order to form an interoperable multi-radio facility, combining terrestrial and satellite communications with the ultimate aim of efficiently extending 5G coverage to underserved areas. To that end, the Limassol 5G platform will employ NFV-/SDN-enabled satellite communications as well as tight integration of different access and backhaul technologies, in order to achieve the following innovative features: i) ubiquitous coverage with reduced latency, ii) support for multi-radio slicing, iii) 5G throughput enhancement via air interface aggregation, where necessary and iv) dynamic spectrum allocation between satellite and terrestrial.
Short Description
The key infrastructures on which the platform will be built is the Avanti Satellite Gateway in Cyprus, providing connectivity to the Hylas2 satellite, and of Primetel testbed in the company’s central building, near the Limassol port. The implementation of the platform is coordinated by Space Hellas (Cyprus) Ltd, which is integrating the various assets and is also offering the management and coordination components. In 5GENESIS, the platform focuses on two use cases: maritime communications and capacity-on-demand in rural/underserved areas.
The 5GENESIS Limassol platform includes the following features:
- Next-generation satellite communications, supported by the Avanti HYLAS2 and HYLAS4 satellites, featuring NFV/SDN enablers and seamless integration into 5G.
- NG Core and 5G NR, focusing on ad-hoc, remotely-deployed 5G hotspots (in underserved areas, long-range transportation media etc.)
- Support for dynamic deployment and management of network services at the satellite edge (satcom MEC), including local session handling (LBO) and IoT interoperability.
- WAN optimization and multi-link aggregation, for satellite/terrestrial radio coupling.
- Dynamic Spectrum Allocation (DSA) between satellite and terrestrial
- Security Analytics framework, based on Big Data and Machine Learning technologies for the dynamic identification and classification
Use cases
- Long-haul transport (supported by MARAN UK shipping company)
- Underserved areas
- Sensor networks
- Public Safety (disaster relief)
- Media and Entertainment (caching, multicast distribution etc.)
- eHealth
- Factory of the Future (focus on factory ships)
Technologies available
Satellite backhauling, NFV/SDN-enabled satcom, 5G core, 5GNR, Network Slicing, SDN in transport and core, edge computing for low latency services at the satellite edge, ML-based security analytics, dynamic spectrum management
Support of Verticals
Business model
The coordinating organization (Space Hellas Cyprus Ltd.) acts as the single point of contact for the vertical user/experimenter, negotiating the terms of use/SLA as well as the compensation for the human and technical resources, which will be employed for the support of the experiment.
Connectivity/Usage requirements
Vertical users can deploy their own services in the platform or can connect their remote services to the platform. The platform offers the common 5GENESIS Experimenter Interface to describe services and experiments to be executed in the platform. The platform may also expose some internal interfaces to connect vertical services and devices.
Other info
Extensions: The platform is fully modular and may be extended with further functionalities depending on the vertical requirements and needs (e.g. VNFs, edge services etc.).
Projects using the platform: 5Genesis, SaT5G, commercial industry projects.
Vendors/Manufacturers/Providers providing support for the platform: Avanti, PrimeTel, iDirect, Eurecom, Athonet
Disclaimer: This document describes a platform to be built in the context of 5GENESIS H2020 project. The technical aspects refer to the platform as expected by the end of 2019 according to the work plan. The objective of the document is to facilitate the preparation of project proposals for the call ICT 19. This is not a contractual document, and features could be changed by 5GENESIS consortium due to incidences or to the feedback from the EC. Any interested entity may approach the platform operators and may request using the platform on a non-profit basis as part of a research and development activity. Usage of the platform is subject of a negotiated legal agreement and compensation scheme covering the associated effort and operational cost of the platform provider and contributors.
5GENESIS
“5th Generation End-to-end Network, Experimentation, System Integration, and Showcasing”
Horizon 2020 – Call: H2020-ICT-2017
Topic: ICT-17-2017
Type of action: R&I
Duration: 42 Months
Start date: 1/7/2018
THIS PROJECT IS PART OF THE 5G PUBLIC AND PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP
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