Cloud-Native 5G Service Delivery Platform

Abstract

Operators have been adopting the cloud-native paradigm for the rollout of 5G architecture. With it goes the introduction of the service-based architecture as a key design pattern for realizing future control, and ultimately user planes of mobile networks. The main benefits of this new design pattern are the increased flexibility to address new business cases while maintaining competitive cost levels, while also benefitting the realization of use cases usually requiring the full breadth of infrastructure level network slicing. In this paper, we present a realization of a service delivery platform entirely built upon service-based architecture principles, showcasing the realization of control as well as user plane services along with early deployment insights.