Simula participating in 5G-VINNI project

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Simula is now participating in the new 5G-VINNI project, for research on 5G mobile broadband networks as part of ongoing activity on NorNet Edge! Have a look at https://5g-ppp.eu/5g-vinni/ for details!

Objective

5G-VINNI will accelerate the uptake of 5G in Europe by providing an end-to-end (E2E) facility that validates the performance of new 5G technologies by operating trials of advanced vertical sector services.

The 5G-VINNI strategy to achieve this involves:

  1. Design an advanced and accessible 5G end to end facility.
  2. Build several interworking sites of the 5G-VINNI end to end facility.
  3. Provide user friendly zero-touch orchestration, operations and management systems for the 5G-VINNI facility.
  4. Validate the 5G KPIs and support the execution of E2E trial of vertical use cases to prove the 5G-VINNI capabilities.
  5. Develop a viable business and ecosystem model to support the life of the 5G-VINNI facility during and beyond the span of the project.
  6. Demonstrate the value of 5G solutions to the 5G community particularly to relevant standards and open source communities with a view to securing widespread adoption of these solutions.

The 5G-VINNI E2E facility will demonstrate the achievement of 5G KPIs across a range of combinations and permutations of new 5G access technologies and end-user equipment types interconnected by the most advanced 5G core network technologies available. For this 5G-VINNI will leverage the latest 5G technologies, including results from previous 5G PPP projects.

This approach employs Network Function Virtualization, Network Slicing and a rigorous automated testing campaign to validate the 5G KPIs under various combinations of technologies and network loads. To ensure realistic load scenarios 5G-VINNI will create and make available an openness framework to give verticals and peer projects easy access to the 5G-VINNI facilities, both legally and technically, e.g. via open APIs. The 5G-VINNI facilities include 7 infrastructure instances in nationally supported 5G nodes across Europe; this number may be expanded as the ICT-19 projects come on-line in 2019.