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
module λΝ
MPI
BV-WSS
BV-WSS
Fast Switch
module λ2
MUX
MUX
Fast Switch
module λ1
Fast Switch
module λΝ
OPP
MPI
MPI
OPP
Tx
BVT/R
BVT/R
MPI
VIM VIM VIM VIM
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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b) c)
d)
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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
WP3: Data Plane
Programmability and
Infrastructure
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WP4: Physical
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PNF
Memory
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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