L. Valcarenghi, B. Martini, Kiril Antevski, C. Bernardos, G. Landi, M. Capitani, J. Mangues‐Bafalluy, R. Martínez, J. Baranda, I. Pascual, A. Ksentini, C. Chiasserini, F. Malandrino, Xi Li, Dmitriy Andrushko, Konstantin Tomakh
{"title":"A Framework for Orchestration and Federation of 5G Services in a Multi-Domain Scenario","authors":"L. Valcarenghi, B. Martini, Kiril Antevski, C. Bernardos, G. Landi, M. Capitani, J. Mangues‐Bafalluy, R. Martínez, J. Baranda, I. Pascual, A. Ksentini, C. Chiasserini, F. Malandrino, Xi Li, Dmitriy Andrushko, Konstantin Tomakh","doi":"10.1145/3286680.3286684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3286680.3286684","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of the 5GT Service Orchestrator (SO), which is one of the key components of the 5G-TRANSFORMER (5GT) system for the deployment of vertical services. Depending on the requests from verticals, the 5GT-SO offers service or resource orchestration and federation. These functions include all tasks related to coordinating and providing the vertical with an integrated view of services and resources from multiple administrative domains. In particular, service orchestration entails managing end-to-end services that are split into various domains based on requirements and availability. Federation entails managing administrative relations at the interface between the SOs belonging to different domains and handling abstraction of services. The SO key functionalities, architecture, interfaces, as well as two sample use cases for service federation and service and resource orchestration are presented. Results for the latter use case show that a vertical service is deployed in the order of minutes.","PeriodicalId":205632,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimentation and Measurements in 5G","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123534226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xenofon Foukas, Fragkiskos Sardis, Fox Foster, M. Marina, M. Lema, M. Dohler
{"title":"Experience Building a Prototype 5G Testbed","authors":"Xenofon Foukas, Fragkiskos Sardis, Fox Foster, M. Marina, M. Lema, M. Dohler","doi":"10.1145/3286680.3286683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3286680.3286683","url":null,"abstract":"While experimental work in the context of 5G has gained significant traction over the past few years, the focus has mainly been on testing the features and capabilities of novel designs and architectures using very simple testbed setups. However, with the emergence of network slicing as a key feature of 5G, creating larger scale infrastructures capable of supporting virtualized end-to-end mobile network services is of paramount importance for experimentation. In this work, we describe our experience in building such a prototype cross-domain testbed targeting 5G use cases, by enabling multi-tenancy through the virtualization of the underlying infrastructure. The capabilities of the testbed are demonstrated through the use case of neutral-host indoor small-cell deployments, followed by a discussion on the challenges we faced while building the testbed, which open up new research opportunities in this space.","PeriodicalId":205632,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimentation and Measurements in 5G","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127943539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kiril Antevski, M. Groshev, Luca Cominardi, C. Bernardos, Alain A. M. Mourad, Robert Gazda
{"title":"Enhancing Edge robotics through the use of context information","authors":"Kiril Antevski, M. Groshev, Luca Cominardi, C. Bernardos, Alain A. M. Mourad, Robert Gazda","doi":"10.1145/3286680.3286682","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3286680.3286682","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud robotics aims at endowing robot systems with powerful capabilities by leveraging the computing resources available in the Cloud. To that end, the Cloud infrastructure consolidates services and information among the robots, enabling a degree of centralization which has the potential to improve operations. Despite being very promising, Cloud robotics presents two critical issues: (i) it is very hard to control the network between the robots and the Cloud (e.g., long delays, high jitter), and (ii) local context information (e.g., on the access network) is not available in the Cloud. This makes hard to achieve deterministic performance for robotics applications. Over the last few years, Edge computing has emerged as a trend to provide services and computing capabilities directly in the access network. This is so because of the additional benefits enabled by Edge computing: (i) it is easier to control the network end-to-end, and (ii) local context information (e.g., about the wireless channel) can be made available for use by applications. The goal of this paper is to showcase, by means of real-life experimentation, the benefits of residing at the Edge for robotics applications, due to the possibility of consuming context information locally available. In our experimentation, an application running in the Edge controls over a WiFi link the movement of a robot. Information related to the wireless channel is made available via a service at the Edge, which is then consumed by the application.Results show that a smoother driving of the robot can be achieved when wireless quality information is considered as input of the movement control algorithm.","PeriodicalId":205632,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimentation and Measurements in 5G","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122708144","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Black Box Measurement Method for Reliability of Wireless Communication","authors":"Matthias Herlich, Christian Maier, P. Dorfinger","doi":"10.1145/3286680.3286681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3286680.3286681","url":null,"abstract":"In the future, connected vehicles and automated factories will use wireless communication. To implement these applications, wireless networks must be reliable. Because the cost of communication failures in such applications is high, reliability should not only be estimated in advance, but also measured directly in practice. To date, no method exists that is able to determine, if a wireless network is 99.999 % reliable. To address this need, we propose a black box test that uses only the success/fail status of transmissions to determine the reliability of wireless communication. The test is based on two assumptions: (1) reliability is time-invariant and (2) transmissions are statistically independent. Because it is crucial for any measurement method that its assumptions hold, we test both assumptions as part of the method. The proposed method is especially suited when access to lower layer information is limited to the information returned by off-the-shelf hardware. The method measures reliability of wireless networks without support and knowledge from the network operator and administrator. In the future, methods such as the proposed one are needed to ensure reliable operation of wireless networks in critical scenarios.","PeriodicalId":205632,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Workshop on Experimentation and Measurements in 5G","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126763304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}