Exploiting Forecasting for Automatic Network Service Operations in Digital Twin Applications

This demo highlights and experimentally proves the adoption of the Forecasting Functional Block (5Gr-FFB) in the orchestration and monitoring operations of the 5G Network Services (NS). In particular, the demo will show how to instantiate an NS with related monitoring functionalities and exploit the 5Gr-FFB for generating forecasting metrics. The interactions among 5Gr-FFB and the other orchestration functional blocks (i.e., the Service Orchestrator (5Gr-SO) and the Vertical oriented Monitoring System (5Gr-VoMS) will be highlighted. The demo considers a robotic Digital Twin use-case deployed at 5Tonic premises. This work represents a first step towards the evolution of advanced close loop operations, consuming hybrid metrics (i.e., retrieved from the monitoring components and the forecasting ones) to perform automatic NS operations with margin in time

5Growth: Secure and Reliable Network Slicing for Verticals

Network slicing is well-recognized as a core 5G technology to enable heterogeneous vertical services sharing the same infrastructure. In this context, the H2020 5Growth project extends baseline 5G management and orchestration platforms to manage the life-cycle of real end-to-end, reliable, and secure network slices with performance guarantees. In this paper, we present 5Growth's approaches to (i) attain isolation across network slices, (ii) provide secure interfaces towards third parties, and (iii) exploit AI/ML to achieve reliability through automated anomaly detection. In our quest towards validating full-fledged 5G pilots, we demonstrate our slicing mechanisms in PoCs that include interacting with ICT-17 infrastructure