5G-IANA

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Abstract:

5G-IANA aims at providing an open 5G experimentation platform, on top of which third party experimenters (i.e., SMEs) in the Automotive-related 5G-PPP vertical will have the opportunity to develop, deploy and test their services. An Automotive Open Experimental Platform (AOEP) will be specified, as the whole set of hardware and software resources that provides the compute and communication/transport infrastructure as well as the management and orchestration components, coupled with an enhanced NetApp Toolkit tailored to the Automotive sector. 5G-IANA will expose to experimenters secured and standardized APIs for facilitating all the different steps towards the production stage of a new service. 5G-IANA will target different virtualization technologies integrating different MANO frameworks for enabling the deployment of the end-to-end network services across different domains (vehicles, road infrastructure, MEC nodes and cloud resources). 5G-IANA NetApp toolkit will be linked with a new Automotive VNFs Repository including an extended list of ready to use open accessible Automotive-related VNFs and NetApp templates, that will form a repository for SMEs to use and develop new applications. Finally, 5G-IANA will develop a distributed AI/ML (DML) framework, that will provide functionalities for simplified management and orchestration of collections of AI/ML service components and will allow ML-based applications to penetrate the Automotive world, due to its inherent privacy preserving nature. 5G-IANA will be demonstrated through 7 Automotive-related use cases in 2 5G SA testbeds. Moving beyond technological challenges, and exploiting input from the demonstration activities, 5G-IANA will perform a multi-stakeholder cost-benefit analysis that will identify and validate market conditions for innovative, yet sustainable business models supporting a long-term roadmap towards the pan-European deployment of 5G as key advanced Automotive services enabler.

Main Objectives:

• Obj1: Specify and provide an Automotive Open Experimental Platform (AOEP). The 5G-IANA AOEP consists of following main components:
  • The 5G-IANA NetApp Orchestration and Development framework (NOD), the Slice Manager (SM) and the Multi-domain Service Orchestrator (MSO);
  • The virtualized infrastructure domains: OBU, RSU, MEC nodes, Cloud resources;
  • The 5G-IANA NetApps toolkit linked with a new Automotive VNFs Repository
  • A Distributed AI/ML (DML) framework, as part of the VNFs Repository.
• Obj2: Specify and implement a repository environment for NetApps and VNFs to ease the design and chaining of new Automotive-related services – to be integrated with 5G-PPP open repositories.
• Obj3: Ensure co-existence with DSRC and LTE/5G and enhance network platform performances for the Automotive vertical.
• Obj4: Provide accurate localization and low latency mission-critical applications.
• Obj5: Define, implement and trial Connected and Automated Driving relevant Use Cases to validate and assess the AOEP suitability and functional improvements.
• Obj6: Improve service creation time (5G-PPP KPI).
• Obj7: Create new business opportunities and boost market for start-ups and SMEs with Automotive NetApps.
• Obj8: Increase road safety and reduce automobile carbon footprint by leveraging Connected and Automated Mobility using enhanced network performances.
• Obj9: Ensure cross-domain and cross-platform interoperability and boost standardisation committees on NFV and Network orchestration.

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