Mosaic5G: agile and flexible service platforms for 5G research
Mosaic5G: agile and flexible service platforms for 5G research
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Mosaic5G：敏捷灵活的5G研究服务平台
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2018
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K. Alexandris
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N. Nikaein;Chia;K. Alexandris
网络切片是提供所需灵活性并实现面向第五代（5G）移动的网络的面向服务的愿景的关键使能因素之一。从这个意义上说，虚拟化、软件化和分解是核心概念，可以满足端到端（E2E）服务的隔离、共享或定制需求。它们为多服务和多租户架构奠定了基础，并通过将软件定义网络（SDN）、网络功能虚拟化（NFV）和云计算的原理应用于移动的网络来实现。对这些原则的研究需要敏捷和灵活的平台，在不同领域提供广泛的现实世界实验，以开辟5G创新。为此，我们介绍了Mosaic5G，这是一个社区主导的共享平台联盟，提供了许多软件组件，即FlexRAN，LL-MEC，JOX和Store，在OpenAirInterface（OAI）平台上跨越应用，管理，控制和用户平面。最后，我们展示了与广泛提及的5G研究方向相对应的Mosaic5G的几个用例。
Network slicing is one of the key enablers to provide the required flexibility and to realize the service-oriented vision toward fifth generation (5G) mobile networks. In that sense, virtualization, softwarization, and disaggregation are core concepts to accommodate the requirements of an end-to-end (E2E) service to be either isolated, shared, or customized. They lay the foundation for a multi-service and multi-tenant architecture, and are realized by applying the principles of software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and cloud computing to the mobile networks. Research on these principles requires agile and flexible platforms that offer a wide range of real-world experimentations over different domains to open up innovations in 5G. To this end, we present Mosaic5G, a community-led consortium for sharing platforms, providing a number of software components, namely FlexRAN, LL-MEC, JOX and Store, spanning application, management, control and user plane on top of OpenAirInterface (OAI) platform. Finally, we show several use cases of Mosaic5G corresponding to widely-mentioned 5G research directions.