Nokia drives key European research project 5G-MoNArch to bring 5G mobile network architecture from concept to real world
22 August 2017 - 10:01PM
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- The 5G-MoNArch research project coordinated by Nokia started as
part of Phase II of the European 5G-PPP initiative
- 5G mobile architecture concepts from 5G-PPP Phase I are brought
into practice with industry-driven use cases and two real-world
testbed implementations
- 14 industry, academic and research institute partners
co-operate in this flagship project
August 22, 2016
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today formally launched the 5G MoNArch
(5G Mobile Network Architecture) research project. Supported and
financed as part of Phase II of the 5G Infrastructure Public
Private Partnership (5G-PPP) - under the auspices of the European
Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme - 5G MoNArch will put
fifth-generation mobile network architecture into practice. The
project consortium, consisting of 14 leading industrial and
academic partners and coordinated by Nokia, will focus on the
implementation of a set of 5G use cases in real-world
testbeds.
5G MoNArch's specific goal is to use network slicing, which
capitalizes on the capabilities of software-defined networking
(SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), orchestration, and
analytics, to support a variety of use cases in vertical industries
such as automotive, healthcare, and media. Network slicing is a
technique where the network is logically (not physically)
sectorized, so that separate services are supported by each
"separate" logical network. As 5G networks need to simultaneously
support various services with different requirements, network
slicing will be a crucial aspect of the network architecture,
providing flexible and adaptive networks which fulfill the 5G
requirements.
Nokia strongly supports projects that bring together the public
and private sectors to advance technology, and has pursued this
approach for decades. Since 2015, Nokia has been a leading
contributor to 5G-PPP, coordinating the Phase I research of
5G-NORMA - the leading European network architecture research
project setting the conceptual basis for 5G communications networks
- and providing key input to 3GPP standardization. Now, in the
second phase of 5G-PPP, 5G MoNArch aims to complement the initial
groundwork by bringing these concepts to practical deployment.
5G MoNArch involves 14 key mobile network players from six
European countries, bringing together the complementary background
and technical know-how required to turn the project's vision into
reality. It will run for two years with a total budget of 7.7
million €.
In continuation of 5G-NORMA, 5G-MoNArch enriches the original
architectural concepts of the first phase with innovations such as
cloud-enabled network protocols, and showcases the new technology
in two testbeds. The flexible and programmable architecture will
support the vast variety of services, use cases, and applications
that 5G will bring in the next years.
The main objectives of 5G MoNArch are:
- Detailed specification and extension of 5G architecture
- Enhancement of architectural designs with key enabling
innovations such as inter-slice control and cross-domain
management, experiment-driven modeling and optimization, and native
cloud-enabled protocol stack
- Functional innovations around the key technologies required for
dedicated 5G use cases: resilience, security, and resource
elasticity
- Deployment and experimental implementation of the architecture
for two use cases in real-world testbeds - heavy communications
usage in a tourist-heavy city, and secure and reliable
communication in a seaport environment
- Evaluation, validation, and verification of the architecture
performance
Project website: https://www.5g-monarch.eu
Peter Merz, head of End-to-End Mobile Networks Solutions at
Nokia Bell Labs, says: "5G PPP brings together a range of
stakeholders from the communications technology sector and other
industries. We follow a shared architecture of what the
next-generation communications infrastructure needs to look like to
enable and meet the network demands of the next decade. 5G
communication needs both private and public entities to invest in
the infrastructure and ensure Europe remains competitive. Nokia is
fully committed to the 5G-PPP: we have delivered know-how and
innovative technologies since its launch in 2015 in order to
strengthen the European 5G footprint."
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About the 5G PPPThe 5G Infrastructure Public Private
Partnership, 5G PPP, has been initiated by the EU Commission and
industry manufacturers, telecommunications operators, service
providers, SMEs and researchers.
In the 5G PPP, the 5G Infrastructure Association (5G IA)
represents the private side and the European Commission the public
side. The 5G IA is committed to the advancement of 5G in Europe and
to build global consensus on 5G. The 5G PPP will deliver solutions,
architectures, technologies and standards for the ubiquitous next
generation communication infrastructures of the coming
decades.https://5g-ppp.eu/
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and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding
available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) - in addition to the private
investment that this money will attract. It promises more
breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas
from the lab to the
market.https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en/what-horizon-2020
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