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GrazieTIM activities on MEC

panel on 5G softwarization

Dario Sabella (Telecom Italia)

IEEE 2016 IEEE Conference onStandards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), co-located with 5G Berlin SummitFraunhofer-Forum Berlin, November 1, 2016

2IEEE CSCN 2016 (Berlin, November 1, 2016)

Agenda

• Telecom Italia presentation

• 5G and Mobile Edge Computing

• TIM activities on MEC

• Conclusions and remarks


Agenda






Telecom Italia group 1/2

Employees

59.000

TIM lines in Italy

29.700.000

Revenues (€)

9.100.000.000

Telecom Italia is the main

telecommunication and ICT

operator in Italy, as well as one

of the most important in Latin

America and among the main

global mobile operators

Italian leader in the ICT market,

active in the following sectors:

fixed and mobile communications,

internet and media, systems and

solutions for business, R&D

Strategic markets: Italy, BrasilValues referred to 1H2016

http://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/en/about-us/profile.html

http://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/it/investors/financials/employees.html


Telecom Italia group 2/2

The international presence

Italy

Latin america: TIM Brasil Group

International Wholesale services

TI sparkle is an important global service provider, with activites on Voice, IP and data transmission for fixed and mobile operators, ISP and multinational societies (MNCs)


Focus on TILAB: Wireless Innovation

Main activities of the dept.

R&D activities, scouting, testing, performance evaluation of wireless systems

(e.g. OFDMA), study of innovative radio access technologies

technological trials (e.g. LTE), support to engineering department

Involvement in standardization bodies and fora (3GPP, ETSI, NGMN, …)

And also EU funded projects, collaboration with vendors and academic world.

https://www.ict-earth.eu/ https://www.metis2020.com/http://www.ict-ijoin.eu/


Agenda






How 5G is taking shape

BOOST IN TECHNICAL PERFORMANCE TO FACE THE KEY CHALLENGES

The ability to continuously provide services for the connected society that

we don’t know a priori

A programmable NW to reduce Time to Market and ease technology

deployment&decommissioning

New Service Creation Cycle (Beta version model), Flexibility, NW

Capability to react quickly

• 5G will be mainly driven by software and by the usage carrier grade virtualizationtechnology for the telecommunication infrastructure, functions and applications.

• Based on a virtualized platform, MEC is also currently recognized by 5G PPP as one of thekey emerging technologies for 5G systems (as well as NFV and SDN).

Source: EU-Japan Symposium on 5G “From challenges

to standardisation”, Tokyo, February 2016


Operator perspective on MEC

Mobile-Edge Computing can be considered as a technology component for the

evolution towards 5G [1], providing IT service environment and cloud-

computing capabilities within the Radio Access Network (RAN), in close

proximity to mobile subscribers.

“5G will be driven by software. Network functions are expected to run over a unified

operating system in a number of points of presence, especially at the edge of the network

for meeting performance targets.

As a result, 5G will heavily rely on emerging technologies such as Software Defined

Networking (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Mobile Edge Computing

(MEC) and Fog Computing (FC) to achieve the required performance, scalability and

agility.” [1]

Operators can open their RAN edge to authorized third-parties, allowing them

to flexibly and rapidly deploy innovative applications and services towards

mobile subscribers, enterprises and vertical segments.

[1] 5G Infrastructure Association: Vision White Paper, February 2015. Link: http://5g-ppp.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/5G-Vision-Brochure-v1.pdf


Mobile Edge Computing and 5G

Help satisfying the demanding requirements for the 5G era

in terms of expected throughput, latency, scalability and

automation.

5G Use Cases Families and Related Examples

Source: ETSI - Network Virtualization Forum – Sept 2015


Agenda






TIM standardization and Experimentation activities in MEC

In the framework of ETSI MEC standardization, Telecom Italia is serving as

vice-chair in the IEG (Industry Enabling Group), which main goal is to drive

the deployment of the Mobile Edge Computing concepts within the industry.

Examples of current IEG activities of a particular interest (TIM point of view):

Proof-of-Concepts (http://mecwiki.etsi.org )

– Industry will have the opportunity to validates the MEC Group Specifications (GSs);

– Results from PoCs can serve also as useful insights and feedback for the ISG

MEC-IEG-006 specification: “MEC Metrics Best Practices and Guidelines”

– Description of the various metrics which can potentially be improved through

deploying a service on a MEC platform.

– Example use cases are used to demonstrate where improvements to a number of

KPIs can be identified in order to highlight the benefits of deploying MEC

– Furthermore, this document describes best practices for measuring such

performance metrics and these techniques are further exemplified with use cases.


TIM proof-of-concept «RAVEN» 1/3

In December 2015, TIM proposed a PoC [2] on

“Radio aware video optimization in a fully virtualized network”

This PoC (accepted by ETSI) is about Radio aware video optimisation

application implemented in a fully virtualized network, under the

collaboration between TIM, Intel, Eurecom and Politecnico di Torino.

http://mecwiki.etsi.org/index.php?title=PoC_3_Radio_aware_

video_optimization_in_a_fully_virtualized_network

[2] MECIEG(15)000064r1_Radio_aware_video_optimization _in_a_fully_virtualized_networ.docx



The PoC demonstrates a video optimisation application aware of the Radio

conditions in the cell, where MEC application is co-located with eNB and

communicating with video content server, and quality of video streams are

adjusted according to radio conditions of the users.

As a result, video streams and the quality perceived by users will be

improved thanks to the usage of MEC video optimization application.

UE3

UE2

UE1

Radio optimization

VirtualizedeNB LTE (VNF)

RNISother

MEC

services

MEC server running on Intel® NEV SDK

(virtualized in the same HW)

Radio measures MEC APIs

MEC app

(video

content

optimiz.)

Videocontent server

Packet

scheduler

Video streamtranscoding



The PoC has been demonstrated at the MEC Congress (20-22 Sept 2016, Munich).

The following scheme depicts an overview of the PoC, with all components involved.

Alternative architecture (e.g. more convenient location of the video content server, …)

are also evaluated, for example in order to compare different deployment options

(and related performances).

EPC

eNB +MEC server

UE3

UE2

UE1

Videocontent server

Content optimization

applicationOAI LTE eNB Server and MEC

framework

MEC testbed

application

application


Agenda






Conclusions and remarks• 5G will be mainly driven by software and by the usage carrier grade

virtualization technology for the telecommunication infrastructure,

functions and applications.

• Based on a virtualized platform, MEC is also currently recognized by 5G

PPP as one of the key emerging technologies for 5G systems (as well

as NFV and SDN).

• TIM is actively involved in ETSI MEC activities both from a

standardization perspective (TIM is serving as vice-chair of Mobile Edge

Computing IEG WG) and experimental activities (proof-of-concept

RAVEN on “Radio aware video optimization in a fully virtualized

network”).

• Software activities (and collaboration with open source initiatives) in

MEC phase 2 will be more important, in the view of future 5G systems.

GrazieThank you

Dario [email protected]

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