5G-PICTURE 5G Programmable Infrastructure Converging

disaggregated network and compUte Resources

01.06.2017 – 30.11.2019

Anna Tzanakaki1 & Eckhard Grass2

1 University of Bristol, UK 2 IHP, Germany

On Behalf of the 5G-PICTURE consortium

• IHP GmbH (Coordinator)

• University of Bristol

• ADVA Optical Networking

• Airrays GmbH

• Blu Wireless Technology

• CNIT

• COSMOTE

• EURECOM

• Fundació Privada i2CAT, Internet I Innovació Digital a Catalunya

• Telecom Italia S.p.A

• Zeetta Networks

• Mellanox

• Huawei Technologies

Dusseldorf GmbH

• Technische Universität

Dresden

• Transpacket

• Paderborn University

• COMSA INSTALACIONES Y SISTEMAS INDUSTRIALES SL

• Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya

• University of Thessaly

Consortium Members

Universities (4x), Research Institutes (4x), SMEs (3x), Operators (3x), Industry partners (5x)

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Main Objectives • 5G-PICTURE will design and develop an integrated, scalable and open

5G infrastructure with the aim to support operational and end-user services for both ICT and ‘vertical’ industries.

• This infrastructure will rely on a converged fronthaul and backhaul solution, integrating advanced wireless access and novel optical network domains.

• To address the limitations of current solutions 5G-PICTURE will adopt the novel concept of Disaggregated-Radio Access Networks (DA-RANs)

• allows any service to flexibly mix-and-match and use compute, storage and network resources through HW programmability

• relies on network ‘softwarisation’ to enable an open reference platform instantiating a variety of network functions

• adopts slicing and service chaining to facilitate optimised multi-tenancy operation

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Concept

• Extensive demonstration activities to showcase ICT and vertical industry use cases

• Converged fronthaul and backhaul services in a smart city test-bed (city of Bristol, UK)

• Seamless service provisioning and mobility management in high speed railway environments - 5G railway experimental testbed (Barcelona, Spain)

• Media services supporting large venues with increased density and static-to-low mobility - stadium test-bed supporting large venues (Bristol, UK)

Large DCsInternet

Metro

Core

Metro

Mini DCs

Mid-DCs

Micro-DCs

Wireless AccessMacro-cells

SSD

RAMGPP SPP

SSD

RAMGPP

SSD

RAMGPP

SPP

SPP

• 5G-PICTURE proposes to integrate network and compute/storage resources in a common infrastructure.

• Hierarchical compute & storage structure supported by a network hierarchy

• Integrated programmable wireless technologies at the edge and a hybrid passive/active optical transport network

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Technical Approach

• Τo address the limitations of D-RAN and C-RAN, we will develop flexible functional splits

• Adoption of the notion of DA-RAN relying on resource disaggregation

• mixing-and-matching of resources

• Development of novel technology solutions and control & management platforms

• enhanced network and compute HW and SW modularity and flexibility

• Creation and deployment of programmable network functions and intelligent orchestration schemes

• service chaining

• slicing & multi-tenancy

mmWaveRRH

VIM VIM VIM

PON

VIM

RAM

VIM

Storage

VIM

Processing (specific)

VIM

Processing (general)

OPP

MPI

MPI

OPP

Tx

BVT/R

BVT/R

BV-WSS

BV-WSS

Fast Switch

module λ2

MUX

MUX

Fast Switch

module λ1

Fast Switch

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MPI

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BV-WSS

Fast Switch

module λ2

MUX

MUX

Fast Switch

module λ1

Fast Switch

module λΝ

OPP

MPI

MPI

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BVT/R

MPI

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NFV Orhestrator

5G-PICTURE OS

PNF(Synchronization)

PNF(Signal Processing/

massive MIMO)PNF(beam tracking)

PNF (FFT, iFFT)

VNF (vEPC)

VNF (vMME, vBBU)

VNF

VNF vCDN

VNF controller

VNF controller

SDN ControllerSlicing

Manager

Monitoring and Profiling

Operations and Support System(OSS)

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Inter-project cooperation

• Relevant Working Groups WG 5G Pre-standardization WG – 5G IA •Facilitator: Olav Queseth, Ericsson

WG NetMgmgt & QoS – 5G-PPP •Facilitator: Michael Barros, TSSG Wateford

WG 5G Spectrum – 5G IA •Facilitator: Terje Tjelta, Telenor

WG 5G Architecture – 5G-PPP • Facilitator: Simone Redana, Nokia

WG Software Networks (SDN,NFV) – 5G-PPP

• Facilitators: Josep Martrat, Atos Carlos Jesús Bernardos, UC3M

Collaborations with other Phase-I & Phase II 5G PPP projects-

• 5G-XHaul, Phase I

• mmMAGIC, Phase I

• 5G-Crosshaul, Phase I

• METRO-HAUL, Phase II

• 5G-Transformer, Phase II

• Sat5G, Phase II

• … t.b.d.

WG SME – Networld2020 •Facilitator: Jacques Magen, Interinnov

WG Vision and Societal Challenges WG- 5G IA •Facilitator: Salaheddine Elayoubi, Orange

WG Security – 5G-PPP •Facilitator: J-P Wary, Orange,

Pascal Bisson, Thales

WG Trials – 5G IA •Facilitator: Didier Bourse, Nokia

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Computing

HardwareStorage Hardware

Wireless Network

Hardware

Optical Network

Hardware

Hardware resources

Virtualization Layer

Virtual Compute Virtual Storage Virtual Wireless Virtual Optical

NFVI

VNF VNF PNFVNF

EM EM EMEM

OSS/BSS Orchestrator VNF Manager VIM Manager

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Work Organisation

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Design & Requirements

Architecture Definition/RefinementTechnical Developments

5G ICT Use Case development

5G Stadium/Media Use Case development

Validation in the Bristol is Open (BIO)

Testbed

Phase 1 Phase 3M8 M18 M24

Rail Use Case development

Validation in the FGC Rail Infrastructure

Validation in the Ashton Gate

Stadium (Bristol)

Phase 2 Phase 4 M30

Timeline, Use-Cases & Validation