Towards a realistic 5G infrastructure emulator for experimental service deployment and performance evaluation

Enrique Chirivella-Perez; Jose M. Alcaraz Calero; Qi Wang; Juan Gutiérrez-Aguado

doi:10.1109/DISTRA.2018.8600926

Towards a realistic 5G infrastructure emulator for experimental service deployment and performance evaluation

Enrique Chirivella-Perez
, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero
, Qi Wang
, Juan Gutiérrez-Aguado

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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Abstract

The emerging Fifth Generation (5G) mobile networks have been attracting enormous attention from various stakeholders around the world. In particular, in the research community, prototyping 5G infrastructures and deploying 5G services have gained gears recently towards realising market-oriented 5G trials. However, accessing to and programming on real-world 5G infrastructure is almost prohibitive for most 5G researchers especially in academia. Therefore, it is critical to build realistic yet cost-efficient 5G infrastructure emulators for 5G research labs to enable credible 5G research activities. This paper proposes such a 5G infrastructure emulator that is able to emulate a realistic 5G network in a lab setting based on a small number of commercial-off-the-shelf servers by leveraging virtualization and other technologies. Moreover, this emulator allows a service provider to automatically deploy 5G services from `empty' machines through advanced automation. The emulation platform is described in details with the 5G infrastructure and service deployment procedure highlighted. Empirical results are presented to show the performance of the proposed emulator.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 22st Interna:onal Symposium on Distributed Simula:on and Real Time Applica:ons (DS-RT)
Subtitle of host publication	October 15-17, 2018, Madrid, Spain
Editors	Eva Besada, Óscar Rodríguez Polo, Robson De Grande, José Luis Risco
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538650486
ISBN (Print)	9781538650493
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/DISTRA.2018.8600926
Publication status	Published - 7 Jan 2019

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Name	IEEE Conference Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	1550-6525

Keywords

5G infrastructures
5G emulation
service deployment
infrastructure orchestrator
monitoring service
automated deployment
5G testbed
performance evaluation

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Chirivella-Perez, E., Alcaraz Calero, J. M., Wang, Q., & Gutiérrez-Aguado, J. (2019). Towards a realistic 5G infrastructure emulator for experimental service deployment and performance evaluation. In E. Besada, Ó. R. Polo, R. De Grande, & J. L. Risco (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 22st Interna:onal Symposium on Distributed Simula:on and Real Time Applica:ons (DS-RT): October 15-17, 2018, Madrid, Spain (IEEE Conference Proceedings). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/DISTRA.2018.8600926

Chirivella-Perez, Enrique ; Alcaraz Calero, Jose M. ; Wang, Qi et al. / Towards a realistic 5G infrastructure emulator for experimental service deployment and performance evaluation. Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 22st Interna:onal Symposium on Distributed Simula:on and Real Time Applica:ons (DS-RT): October 15-17, 2018, Madrid, Spain. editor / Eva Besada ; Óscar Rodríguez Polo ; Robson De Grande ; José Luis Risco. Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2019. (IEEE Conference Proceedings).

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Chirivella-Perez, E, Alcaraz Calero, JM, Wang, Q & Gutiérrez-Aguado, J 2019, Towards a realistic 5G infrastructure emulator for experimental service deployment and performance evaluation. in E Besada, ÓR Polo, R De Grande & JL Risco (eds), Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 22st Interna:onal Symposium on Distributed Simula:on and Real Time Applica:ons (DS-RT): October 15-17, 2018, Madrid, Spain. IEEE Conference Proceedings, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1109/DISTRA.2018.8600926

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Chirivella-Perez E, Alcaraz Calero JM, Wang Q, Gutiérrez-Aguado J. Towards a realistic 5G infrastructure emulator for experimental service deployment and performance evaluation. In Besada E, Polo ÓR, De Grande R, Risco JL, editors, Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ACM 22st Interna:onal Symposium on Distributed Simula:on and Real Time Applica:ons (DS-RT): October 15-17, 2018, Madrid, Spain. Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. 2019. (IEEE Conference Proceedings). doi: 10.1109/DISTRA.2018.8600926

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