5GENESIS
Athens Platform
Contact Info
Please send your vertical industry inquiry concerning ICT-19-2019 collaboration to Dr. Harilaos Koumaras (NCSR “Demokritos”) at the following e-mail address athens@5genesis.eu
Country/Countries
Greece
Platform Objectives
The Athens platform will be set up across the city of Athens (NCSR Demokritos Campus – OTE Academy Campus – Egaleo Football Stadium). The testbed is going to be extended so to offer the telecommunication ecosystem an E2E experimental 5G platform, showcasing features of next generation networks, with particular focus on software network technologies (NFV/SDN) and edge computing for small cell infrastructures.
Short Description
Athens.5Glink consists of three different site deployments:
- The campus of NCSR “Demokritos”, in north-east Athens, is a 150-acre area, combining indoor and outdoor environments, covered by five software-driven 5G wireless nodes and supported by an optical backbone.
- The stadium of Egaleo, in west Athens, is going to be an actual “field” testbed, supporting a wide variety of real-life scenarios, ranging from massive MTC to flash crowd events.
- The COSMOTE building (OTE Academy), to the north of the city, is a multi-functional complex, combining various indoor and outdoor usage scenarios.
The 5GENESIS Athens platform includes the following features:
- Fully software-driven, multi-tenant and virtualisation-capable infrastructure
- Micro servers integrated in each Small Cell, according to the SESAME and 5G-ESSENCE architectures for mobile edge services
- SDN/NFV-based Management and Orchestration (MANO)
- Extensive IT capacity (180 CPU cores, 1.5TB RAM)
- Existing VNFs: vDPI, Security Appliances (Firewall, IDS), Network Monitor
- Edge services: Transcoder, Video analysis (object recognition)
- Radio front-end based on SDR platforms, fully reconfigurable
- High-speed Internet connectivity (via GRNET/GEANT)
- Fully configurable remote access (IPSec or SSL VPNs)
- Measurement/test tools including oscilloscopes, signal/spectrum analysers, traffic monitoring tools (ntop, Prometheus, Apache Spot) and visualisation tools (Grafana)
Use cases
Use Case 1: Big event Use case
- Content creation – demonstrate adaptive upstream content transmission
- Low-latency AR applications – edge computing infrastructure will be used to host part of the AR application and serve the associated content
Use Case 2: UAV Use Case – “Eye in the sky” applications
- Control the drone over a low-latency 5G slice and transmit HD and 4K real-time video to the ground control station
Use Case 3: Security-as-a-Service (SecaaS) at the edge
- Deployment and automated configuration of security VNFs for the identification and mitigation of security incidents
Technologies available
SDN/NFV-based Management and Orchestration (MANO) with supported NFV MANO platforms: OSM, OpenBaton and TeNOR, End-to-End Network Slicing with predictable performance isolation, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) of 5G Networks, NFVI based on OpenStack (supporting VMs or Containers) and OpenDaylight, 5G (core + NR + UEs) Networks across multiple administrative network domains
Support of Verticals
The coordinating organization (NCSRD) 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, 5G-NR hardware, etc.)
Projects using the platform: 5GENESIS, 5GESSENCE
Vendors/Manufacturers/Providers providing support for the platform: 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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