InterDigital Demonstrates World’s First Service-Based 5G Control Plane
July 05 2018 - 4:00AM
InterDigital (NASDAQ:IDCC), a mobile technology research and
development company, today released details of a successful
demonstration of a 5G control plane based on service-based
architecture (SBA) principles. When compared to existing 4G control
plane principles, the demonstration showed how network control
functions can be wholly created and run in cloud environments as
web service-like implementations using standard servers, reducing
cost but also dramatically improving scalability, velocity and
flexibility in creating virtual control plane services. The
demonstration was given at the NGMN Forum in Paris, hosted by
Orange, on 17th & 18th April.
The first such demonstration of its kind, InterDigital showed
its solution for 3GPP’s common communication enabler (“COEN”),
which governs the control plane services in a 5G control plane. The
demonstration showed how a service-based model for a 5G control
plane can utilize the communication model of today’s web services
to create multiple software instances within a “cloud
infrastructure”. This approach supports the evolution of future
telecoms infrastructure towards fully software defined networks and
virtualized compute resources.
“The majority of 5G effort and focus to date has been on radio
access development, but fully virtualized and dynamic core
infrastructure is vital if 5G is to accomplish its latency,
throughput and capacity goals,” said Dr. Robert DiFazio, Vice
President, InterDigital Labs. “Web service firms like Amazon and
Google have successfully used a service-based approach to create
highly scalable cloud infrastructures, and our demonstration shows
that adopting such techniques can solve many of the cost and
efficiency challenges ahead for 5G.”
InterDigital’s COEN was based on its SBA – Service Based
Architecture – technology suite, which combines the ability to
flexibly route and quickly redirect service requests to virtualized
service instances residing in localized micro data centres.
InterDigital’s solution works through dynamic web servers, which
can be spun up or down according to user need, dramatically
reducing latency and throughput in line with 5G specifications.
In this solution, visibility and registration of new service
instances can be achieved in less than 20ms, bringing significantly
higher resource efficiency and speed to the delivery of IP-based
services. The solution utilizes an edge IP architecture that
deploys a topology manager, rendezvous points, a surrogate manager
that redirects resources within the edge network, and SBA network
access points that interface with the standard internet.
InterDigital’s SBA solution can be licensed by vendors to
operators.
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InterDigital®InterDigital develops mobile
technologies that are at the core of devices, networks, and
services worldwide. We solve many of the industry's most critical
and complex technical challenges, inventing solutions for more
efficient broadband networks and a richer multimedia experience
years ahead of market deployment. InterDigital has licenses and
strategic relationships with many of the world's leading wireless
companies. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is
included in the S&P MidCap 400® index.
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InterDigital Contact:Patrick Van de WilleEmail:
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