5G ESSENCE
Embedded Network Services for 5G Experiences
Total Budget
€ 8.0Μ
A few details
Project Description
5G ESSENCE addresses the paradigms of Edge Cloud computing and Small Cell-as-a-Service by fuelling the drivers and removing the barriers in the Small Cell market, forecasted to grow at an impressive pace up to 2020 and beyond and to play a key role in the 5G ecosystem. 5G ESSENCE provides a highly flexible and scalable platform, able to support new business models and revenue streams by creating a neutral host market and reducing operational costs by providing new opportunities for ownership, deployment, operation and amortisation.
The technical approach exploits the benefits of the centralisation of Small Cell functions as scale grows through an edge cloud environment based on a two-tier architecture: a first distributed tier for providing low latency services and a second centralised tier for providing high processing power for computing-intensive network applications. This allows decoupling the control and user planes of the Radio Access Network (RAN) and achieving the benefits of Cloud-RAN without the enormous fronthaul latency restrictions. The use of end-to-end network slicing mechanisms will allow sharing the 5G ESSENCE infrastructure among multiple operators/vertical industries and customising its capabilities on a per-tenant basis. The versatility of the architecture is enhanced by high-performance virtualisation techniques for data isolation, latency reduction and resource efficiency, and by orchestrating lightweight virtual resources enabling efficient Virtualised Network Function placement and live migration.
MNLAB
Role
MNLab has undertaken the Technical and Scientific Management of 5G ESSENCE. Moreover:
In WP2 (WP Leader), MNLab leads the definition and specification of the overall 5G ESSENCE system. MNLab will also contribute also with its expertise to the description of the planned use case scenarios as well as to the specification of the functional components. Further MNLAB will help in the identification of similar or competing technologies in the 5G ecosystem or outside it.
In WP3 will provide its knowledge and experience in the 5G network slicing procedures as for example handling issues about the control of a slice and providing isolation and mechanisms for SLA enforcement and monitoring.
In WP4 MNLab will contribute towards developing efficient methods for optimisation of virtualisation techniques and also will lead the Task 4.4 where an initial version of the integrated 5G ESSENCE platform will be assembled, ensuring that it fulfils all the corresponding requirements.
In WPs 5/6/7, MNLab will support the final integrations and the assessment of the prototypes. Contribution will also be provided to the deployment and the validation of the platform, as well as to the planning of the demonstrations and the evaluations that will be required. In addition, MNLab will provide a set of guidelines to players wishing to adopt the proposed framework (or parts of it), as regarding the requirements of the system to be deployed and the specific infrastructure.
Finally, in WP8, MNLab intends to disseminate its innovation results in international peer reviewed scientific journals, magazines, book chapters and conferences. MNLab will also interface the 5G-PPP Technical Board, leveraging the links with other 5G-PPP Phase-2 projects and will lead the activities and contributions of 5G ESSENCE in 5G Architecture WG. Finally, with its expertise, MNLab will also help to the investigation of the market perspectives of the proposed solution.
Duration
2017/6/1 – 2019/11/30
Consortium
21 partners
Grant agreement
number 671704
