5G-TRANSFORMER - 5G Mobile Transport Platform for Verticals

transformer

Start:	01 June 2017
End:	30 November 2019
Funding:	European
Status:	Due
Division:	Communication Networks
Department:	Mobile Networks (MONET), Optical Networks & Systems (ONS)
Code:	761536
Web:	http://5g-transformer.eu/

Motivation

From rigid interconnection to SDN/NFV-based 5G Mobile Transport and Computing Platform (MTP)

Support for vertical industries, focusing on automotive, eHealth, media&entertainment, and M(V)NO

Technical Approach

Enable Vertical Industries to meet their service requirements within customised MTP slices; and
Aggregate and Federate transport networking and computing fabric, from the edge up to the core and cloud, to create and manage MTP slices throughout a federated virtualized infrastructure

5G-Transformer defines three novel building blocks that will be developed and demonstrated integrating the aforementioned vertical industries:

(1) Vertical Slicer as the logical entry point (i.e., one stop shop) for verticals to support the creation of their respective transport slices in a short time-scale (in the order of minutes).
(2) Service Orchestrator to orchestrate the federation of transport networking and computing resources from multiple domains and manage their allocation to slices.
(3) Mobile Transport and Computing Platform as the underlying unified transport stratum for integrated fronthaul and backhaul networks.

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Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)
Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA)
Politecnico di Torino
MIRANTIS
NEXTWORKS
B-COM
Municipal Emergency Assistance and Rescue Service (SAMUR)
Centro Ricerche Fiat (CRF)
INTERDIGITAL
NOKIA
ATOS
Universidad Carlos III
EURECOM
Ericsson
NEC Europe Ltd.
Orange
Telefónica I+D

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