Evaluation of Control over the Edge of a Configurable Mid-band 5G Base Station

Mission-critical applications such as industrial control processes are evolving towards a new development paradigm by offloading their heavy computations to the edge of the emerging Fifth Generation Wireless Specifications (5G) network. In this manner, the applications can gain the economical and efficiency benefits of cloud computing, as well as reliable communication from the 5G network. However, the limited access to a configurable infrastructure of the 5G network and its edge computing infrastructure has restrained academic researchers from experimenting and validating their mission-critical application design under reasonable communication and computation scenarios. In this paper, we present a configurable mid-band 5G Stand-Alone (SA) deployment and demonstrate a control process that is running over the edge of the 5G network. We show in this paper a complete system setup for Control over the Edge (CoE) of the 5G network, and validate the feasibility of deploying similar mission-critical applications over the edge of 5G network.