5G-Monarch

Motivation: The expected diversity of services and use cases in 5G requires a flexible, adaptable, and programmable architecture. While the design of such architecture has been addressed by 5G-PPP Phase 1 at a conceptual level, it must be brought into practice in Phase 2. To this end, 5G-MoNArch will (i) evolve 5G-PPP Phase 1 concepts to a fully-fledged architecture, (ii) develop prototype implementations and (iii) apply these prototypes to representative use cases.

Approach: 5G-MoNArch architecture design will combine Phase 1 concepts (such as virtualisation, slicing and orchestration of access and core functions) with three enabling innovations that fill gaps not ad-dressed in Phase 1: (i) inter-slice control and cross-domain management, to enable the coordination across slices and domains, (ii) experiment-driven optimization, to leverage experimental results to design highly performing algorithms, and (iii) cloud-enabled protocol stack, to gain flexibility in the orchestration of virtualised functions.

Testbeds: The devised architecture will be deployed in two testbeds: (i) the sea port, representative of a vertical industry use case, and (ii) the touristic city, representative of a mobile operator deployment. For each testbed, 5G-MoNArch will instantiate the architecture and complement it with a use case specific functionality – the two functional innovations of 5GMoNArch: (i) resilience and security, needed to meet the sea port requirements, and (ii) resource elasticity, to make an efficient use of the resources in the touristic city.

Impact: 5G-MoNArch has a very high potential for commercial impact, including enhanced products (e.g., orchestrators or edge-cloud RAN), novel services (enabled by network slicing) and opportunities for new market players. To exploit this potential, 5G-MoNArch has elaborated a thorough and realistic innovation plan that includes patents and standards.

Consortium

NOKIA SOLUTIONS AND NETWORKS MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL GMBH Germany
UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID Spain
DEUTSCHE TELEKOM AG Germany
ALCATEL – LUCENT BELL LABS FRANCE France
HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES DUESSELDORF GMBH Germany
TELECOM ITALIA SPA Italy
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS (UK) LIMITED United Kingdom
ATOS SPAIN SA Spain
HAMBURG PORT AUTHORITY Germany
COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES France
ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS Greece
MOBICS LTD Greece
REAL WIRELESS LIMITED United Kingdom
NOMOR RESEARCH GMBH Germany
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET KAISERSLAUTERN Germany