Design and validation of a multi-service 5G network with QoE-aware orchestration

Proceeding of: WiNTECH '18: 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & CharacterizationWhile the work on architectural and algorithmic solutions for 5G has reached a good maturity level, the experimental work lags behind, in particular on the development of open source solutions. In this paper, we describe our implementation experiences when deploying a small-scale multi-service network prototype, used to demonstrate some selected advanced features of 5G Networking. We describe our implementation experiences supporting two heterogeneous services over two independent slices, namely, video streaming and augmented reality, showcasing key features such as multi-slice orchestration, RAN slicing and support for local breakout. While the applications running the services rely on proprietary code, the core of our implementation is completely open-source.This work was supported by the H2020 5G-MoNArch project (grant agreement no. 761445), by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness through the 5G-City project (TEC2016-76795-C6-3-R) and by the Madrid Regional Government through the TIGRE5-CM Program under Grant S2013/ICE-2919