European Industrial and Academic Partners Join to Develop a 5G Mobile Transport Platform for Verticals
June 21 2017 - 3:30AM
A consortium of European industrial and academic partners launched
its activities towards the development of a Software Defined
Networking/Network Function Virtualization-based 5G Mobile
Transport and Computing Platform. The consortium, 5G-TRANSFORMER,
targets support of multiple vertical tenants with a diverse set of
networking and computing requirements, from industries including
automotive, healthcare, and media. The consortium comprises 18
partners, including leading international vendors (NEC, Ericsson,
Nokia, InterDigital), operators (Orange, Telefonica), vertical
industries (CRF – The Research Center of FCA, ATOS, Ayuntamiento de
Madrid), SMEs (Nextworks, Mirantis), and research institutes and
universities (b<>com, University Carlos III of Madrid, CTTC,
Politecnico di Torino, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Eurecom, ITRI
(Taiwan)). The 30-month project, which started on 1st June 2017,
received a grant of 7.98 M€ from the European Commission.
The 5G-TRANSFORMER concept originates from enabling standard
technological frameworks for slicing, namely Network Function
Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), and Mobile
Edge Computing (MEC). The networking and computing fabric
aggregates and federates multiple domains and infrastructure
providers into a single platform where multiple transport slices
will be created and managed. The 5G-TRANSFORMER project will
leverage on the solutions developed in the H2020 5G-PPP phase-1
projects, such as 5G-Crosshaul and 5GEx.
5G-TRANSFORMER envisions three main architectural building
blocks, which are Vertical Slicer for supporting the creation and
management of slices to verticals; Service Orchestrator for
end-to-end service orchestration and federation of resources from
multiple domains; and MTP as the underlying integrated fronthaul
and backhaul transport. The project will focus on the following
activities to accelerate the deployment of mobile transport network
slices tailored to vertical industries (with special focus on low
latency):
- Develop the mobile transport network slicing mechanisms for
enabling dynamic creation and management of slices for vertical
industries through abstraction, simple interfaces and service
blueprints.
- Evolve the 5GEx cross-domain orchestration and federation
mechanisms and apply them to the mobile transport network,
considering interworking with the domains of vertical
industries.
- Augment the current design of the underlying 5G-Crosshaul
transport network by integrating emerging MEC service platform
deemed necessary for the support of vertical industries.
The concept will be designed, developed and demonstrated for
three vertical industries: eHealth, Automotive, and Media &
Entertainment, in addition to the more conventional mobile
(virtual) network operator scenario. Trials are scheduled at
different test beds in Europe during the course of the project in
2018 and 2019.
“InterDigital Europe is excited to be part of this pioneering
project that is exploring the frontiers of network slicing and
related technologies that will provide the foundation for next
generation 5G networks,” said Alan Carlton, Vice President,
InterDigital Europe.
For more information:
Project Web
Page:https://5g-transformer.eu
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