Arturo Azcorra, U. Carlos III and IMDEA

Networks

Vicepresident of 5TONIC

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• Networks are the most complex and largest system

created by mankind

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• The mobile telephony network has 7 billion

terminals that move throughout the world, plus

1.4 billion fixed lines

There are 70 trillion (7*1019) combinations of any two phones,

and all of these combination interwork properly

When you dial a number, the network has to locate the specific

destination terminal and connect in less than one second!!

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• For any given end-to-end call, or packet path:

The network is composed of millions of routers/switches from

hundreds of manufacturers, and any combination must

interoperate along any data path

There are thousands of phone models produced by thousands

of manufacturers, and any combination must interoperate

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• The Internet Protocol v6 has 340 undecillion (3.4*1038)

addresses (more than atoms in the Earth’s surface!!)

• Routers must forward a packet towards the correct

destination in one microsecond!!

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• Over 1.5 billion of Kilometers of optical fiber (ten times

the distance between Earth and Sun)

• 300 FO submarine cables totaling over 900,000 Km

• Over 4,000,000 base stations for mobile communications

www.networks.imdea.org

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• Essential for emergency services (ambulances, firemen,

police, …)

• Essential for critical infrastructures (electrical distribution,

water reservoir and supplies, …)

• Essential for the economy (bank transfers, ATM, credit

cards, …)

• Essential for society (social networks, TV, radio, …)

• Essential for military operations (airforce, navy, army)

www.networks.imdea.org

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“5G is NOT 4G+1”

Mario Campolargo, European Commission

5G is a totally new network

technology for a totally new

environment

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Re-imagination of our emotional experiences…

…of our digital economy

Re-imagining how we READ

BOOKS

Re-imagining how we WATCH

TV

Re-imagining our LIFE

STORIES

Re-imagining the

NEWS

ENGAGEMENT

PHOTOGRAPHY

SCRAPBOOKS

DRAWING

WALKIETALKIE

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NOTEBOOK

S

SIGNATURE

S

Source: Interdigital Communications.

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More context-related

information

(e.g. augmented

reality).

Need for strong limit

on energy dissipation

and CO2 footprint

per capita

Broadband Internet

connectivity

widely available

Need for more

efficient and safer

transportation means

Increasing average

age and higher

importance of

health care

Increased extent

of remote virtual

collaboration

Interconnection of

objects and goods:

’Internet of things’

Personal data

stored in the cloud

and transmitted over

wireless channels

Source: Nokia Solutions and Networks.

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• Completely new concept in Network Control: “Deconstructing the Network”

• NFV/SDN slicing: private personalized virtual networks

• Mobile Edge Computing: personalized services

• Fixed-Mobile convergence, AND, integration with business processes

• Network Virtualization as a key foundation

• Converged fronthaul and backhaul

• New air interface, combining high-capacity access and very low-cost for very low traffic terminals

• Integrated live-broadcast

• SIM-less access

• …

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“Virtualization” at all levels will be critical to properly controlling

the network and the associated range of services

Commonplace in the computing industry; Telecom/Wireless is playing catch-up

This HAS happened

IT resource virtualization

Infrastructure sharing

Policy driven architecture

Outsource of operations

NaaS, IaaS, PaaS

This is happening NOW

All IP network to share BW

Silos converged network

DPI & Open API initiatives

Software Defined Networks

Spectrum sharing/pooling

Network

Virtualization

Cloud

Computing

Source: Interdigital Communications.

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Network automation (SON) in uncertain information environment calls for use of AI

Small cells and WiFi will become seamless part of the network

All cells & frequency layers unified & automatically managed by SON

Current SON doesnot deal with unclear data and unexpected cases

Policy

Knowledge, Reasoning, Learning

Sensing Planning

Decision Making

Acting

Teaching networks to be self-aware

Environment

Source: Nokia Solutions and Networks.

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Objective: Analysis and design of heterogeneous backhaul

and fronthaul technologies for 5G and their joint

optimization with the access, aiming at an energy-

efficient, scalable, highly modular, flexible, reconfigurable

and with reduced cost 5G design

• Convergence of heterogeneous technologies for access,

backhaul and fronthaul

• Joint access, backhaul and fronthaul management

http://5g-crosshaul.eu/

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5G

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• 1 trillion IoT devices

• Service deployment from 90 days to 90 minutes

• 1m location, network based, including indoors

• 99.999% reliability

• Network opex down to 20%

• Ubiquitous 5G access including in low density

areas

5G

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• Year 2018

5G Pre-standard products available

5G Pre-standard Wireless Fixed-Access service

5G Pre-standard mobile coverage trial sites

• 2020

Full 5G products available

Full 5G comercial coverage of at least one European

city per member state

5G

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Many questions, many challenges

for building this future, this vision

Services Provider/s Infrastructure Service

Provider/s (MNO Managed Assets)

Services

Provider/sBSS/OSS Infrastructur

e Services

Provider/s

Transport

Network

Access

NetworkDevice/Use

rThe

“Experience”

The

“Experience”

Abridged OTT/Mobile Network Operator Model/Value Chain (Tomorrow):

Abstractions

Mashups

Intelligence

Revenue Sharing

Models

Source: Interdigital Communications.

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• The European Commission with top companies and

research institutions is running the 5G PPP

• The 5G PPP is fostered, from the private side by the 5G

Infrastructure Association:

http://5g-ppp.eu/

• Europe-wide research effort to deliver the required

technology:

7 year research plan in three stages

700 M€ funded by the European Commission

3,500 to 7,000 M€ funded by top EU industries

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• 5TONIC is a leading European hub for co-creation in 5G

technologies

• 5TONIC is an open research and innovation ecosystem in

which industry and academia come together to boost

technology and business innovative ventures in the area of

5G Products and Services

• Activities: testbed, joint projects, joint entrepreneurial

ventures, discussion fora, events, field-tests, plug-in fests,

seminars and conference site at international level.

• Focus on 5G technology areas, currently on:

5G Virtual Software Network Area

5G Wireless System Area

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• Focused on the Research and Innovation on 5G

communications, services and applications.

• Currently structured in two broad areas:

5G Virtual Software Network Area:

• Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined

Networking, security services, network control and

management planes, cloud services, signaling, …

5G Wireless Systems Area:

• Air interface, radio aspects, duplexing, multiplexing, media

access control, spectrum, interference, mobility tracking, all

based on a multi-RAT approach, …

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• Current horizontal technical topics:

Energy Efficiency, harvesting and management

specially in the area of IoT

Security and Privacy

Measurements and monitoring

• To support the research on these areas, 5TONIC

includes a wide range of systems, functionality,

services and applications, including user

terminals and outdoors equipment, as well as

edge and cloud based back-office

functionality

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• Three vertical trials: Emergencies (SAMUR), Industry 4.0 (Innovalia), Tourism (SEGITTUR)

• Current discussion with other leading technology companies, academia and verticals for their incorporation

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• Pioneer Master program in NFV/SDN technology

www.it.uc3m.es/master-nfv

• European Testbed for 5G-PPP projects:

5G-Crosshaul, 5G-NORMA, 5G-Ex, Flex5Gware,

mmMagic, SUPERFLUIDITY

• NFV Developer Sessions (June 9-10, 2015)

Organizers: Telefonica, U. Carlos III, IMDEA Networks,

and Intel

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• POC event by the Wireless and Mobile Working

Group from ONF (Oct 7-16 2015)

Integration of OpenFlow extensions into Wireless

Backhaul equipment

Participants are: Telefonica, IMDEA Networks, U.

Carlos III, SIAE, Ericsson/NEC (MW equipment),

Coriant (routing/switching), ONOS (controller),

Ceragon, and Huawei

• ETSI Open Source Mano workgroup meeting

(June 27-July 1st, 2016)

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• 5G-Crosshaul demo of integrated

front+backhaul network (Sep 2016)

• Hybrid optical/packet switches, common frame,

CPRI, integrated control, CDN and Broadcast

applications

• Workshop with Vertical industries –

AMETIC/SETSI (Sept 29th)

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• Ericsson Demo to Telefonica of its integrated

optical/packet switch technology for 5G (Oct

4th 2016)

• ETSI NFV Plugtest (Jan 23- Feb 3 2017)

Integration of NFV standards, with advanced

prototypes brought-in

Expected 60 leading participants

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• 5TONIC helps its member companies evaluate

the feasibility and costs of a given technology,

analyzing hidden deployment costs, complexity

of the solutions, regulatory aspects to tackle,

etc.

• 5TONIC helps its member companies to perform

a realistic evaluation of technology choices,

together with the latest innovations in the

services, core network and wireless network

• 5TONIC allows its member companies to

perform co-creation with other technology

leaders and with leading vertical customers

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• 5G networks constitute an unprecedented

technology revolution

• World competition among top-technology

regions to arrive first!

• European effort between public and private

institutions to be the winners

• Carefully drafted and well funded long term

research plan

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