Embedded network ServiceS for 5G ExperieNCEs
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5G ESSENCE project addresses the paradigms of Small Cell as a Service and Edge Cloud Computing by fuelling its drivers and removing its barriers in the Small Cell market, forecasted to grow at an impressive pace until 2020 and beyond and to play a key role in the 5G ecosystem.
5G ESSENCE will provide a highly flexible and scalable platform, able of supporting 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.
5G ESSENCE will exploit the benefits of 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 customising the network capabilities on a per-tenant basis. This will rely on high-performance virtualisation techniques for ensuring data isolation, latency reduction and resource efficiency and on orchestrating lightweight virtual resources enabling efficient Virtualized Network Function placement and live migration.
5G ESSENCE leverages tangible results in the form of knowledge, SW modules and prototypes from various 5G-PPP Phase 1 projects, SESAME being particularly relevant. Building on these solid foundations, very ambitious objectives are targeted culminating with the prototyping and demonstration of 5G ESSENCE system in 3 real-life use cases associated to vertical industries, i.e. 5G edge network acceleration in a stadium, mission critical applications for public safety and in-flight communications/entertainment.
Project website: http://www.5g-essence-h2020.eu/
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