Research

This page provides a list of Research activities that are using or contributing to OSM. Click on the logos for additional details.

Active Projects

5GMETA

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The 5GMETA open platform aims to leverage car-captured data to stimulate, facilitate and feed with them, innovative products and services, leveraging 5G networks and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) Cars capture and generate huge volumes of real-time data about the driving dynamics, the environment, and the driver and passengers’ activities. With connected and automated mobility applications expanding at a fast pace, the value of data from vehicles is vital not only for the automotive industry but also for new players such as SMEs and high-tech start-ups. 5GMETA MEC platform sites are orchestrated with ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM).

Project Partners: VICOMTECH, AKKA, DEKRA, ERTICO, ICOOR, UNIMORE, INTEMPORA, LIFTT, LINKS, GEOLOC SYSTEMS, VEDECOM, WINDTRE

5G-ROUTES

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The 5G-ROUTES project aims to conduct advanced field trials of most representative and innovative Connected and Automated Mobility (CAM) applications seamlessly functioning across a designated 5G cross-border corridor (‘Via Baltica-North’) spanning across 3 EU member states borders (Latvia-Estonia-Finland). These trials will validate the latest 5G features and 3GPP specifications under realistic conditions, so as to accelerate the widespread deployment of 5G E2E interoperable CAM ecosystems and services in digitized motorways and shipways throughout Europe. The 5G-ROUTES project defines the 5G CAM Services platform, where ETSI Open Source MANO (OSM).is used as an NFV orchestrator for different technological enablers and the virtualized CAM Services backend. These technological enablers contribute to the lifecycle management of such CAM services (onboarding, instantiation, termination) and also assist them during run-time (relocation or delivering V2xmessages) in the considered multi-administrative domain scenario.

Timeline: 01/09/2020 – 31/08/2024

Project Partners: Ericsson Estonia, Airbus (Germany and France), Atos Spain SA, Akciju Sabiedriba Pasazieru Vilciens, Brainstorm Multimedia SL, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Ebos Technoloiges Limited, Enide Solutions SL, Inlecom Innovation, CERTH, Institut Vedecom, Iquadrat Informatica SL, LMT, Swarco Italia, Tallin Technical University, VTT, Telia Estonia, Vediafy, WINGS, Elektronikas un Datorzinatnu Instituts.

5TONIC

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5TONIC is an open research and innovation ecosystem for industry and academia to evaluate and demonstrate the capabilities and interoperation of experimental and pre-commercial 5G equipment, services and applications. It is currently structured in two main areas: the 5G Virtual Software Network Area, and the 5G Wireless Systems Area. The 5G Virtual Software Network Area allows the development and advanced experimentation on Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), security services, network control and management planes, cloud services, signalling and related areas. The 5G Wireless Systems Area focuses on the air interface, radio aspects, duplexing, multiplexing, media access control, spectrum, interference, mobility tracking, all based on a Multi-Radio Access Technology (multi-RAT) approach. ETSI OSM is the orchestrator used for all experiments run in 5TONIC. The diverse nature of these experiments and the direct interaction with network users in many different vertical sectors are allowing us to validate features and identify requirements for the evolution of OpenSourceMANO

Project Partners: Telefonica, IMDEA Networks, Ericsson, Intel, Commscope, UC3M, Cohere, InterDigital, Altran, Red Hat, ASTI, IFEMA, Rohde & Schwarz, Luz WaveLabs, Saguna

ETHER

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The "ETHER" project, formally known as the sElf-evolving terrestrial/non-Terrestrial Hybrid nEtwoRks, is focused on developing innovative solutions for a Unified Radio Access Network (RAN) that spans terrestrial, aerial, and space domains. This ambitious project aims to enhance network efficiency and enable zero-touch resource management. A key aspect of ETHER is its work on a Management and Orchestration (MANO) architecture that complements the existing ETSI architecture. Specifically, ETHER addresses mobility management within network infrastructure by proposing a hierarchical architecture to better handle mobility challenges. This approach not only augments the ETSI framework but also facilitates seamless integration across diverse network environments. By leveraging "ETSI OSM", ETHER aims to contribute significantly to standardization activities in management and orchestration.

Timeline: 2023 – 2025/2027

Project Partners: Universite du Luxembourg (UL), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Collins Aerospace (CA), Avanti (AVA), Sateliot (SIOT), Ubiwhere (UBW), I2cat foundation (i2cat), Nearby Computing (NBC), National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos (NCSRD), Linkopings universitet (LIU), Orange Poland (OPL), Martel innovate (MAR), Net AI (NET)

Social Media:

• Twitter/X: @ETHER_EU

IMAGINE-B5G

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IMAGINE-B5G is a Smart Network and Services (SNS) Project, aiming to implement an advanced, accessible, secure, and programmable end-to-end (E2E) 5G platform for large-scale trials and pilots in Europe by leveraging the best breed of B5G features. In the IMAGINE-B5G project, two facility sites (Norway and Portugal) deploy ETSI OSM to manage and orchestrate their 5G networks.

Timeline: Jan 2023 – Dec 2025

Project Partners: UPV (Universitat Politècnica de València), Telenor, Airbus, University of Oslo, SETU, Telefonica, Altice Lab, Nokia Spain, Nokia Networks and Solutions Finland, Altran Portugal, Samsung Electronics UK, Keysight, Ubiwhere, Eurecom, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Fundación de la Comunidad Valenciana para la investigación, promoción y estudios comerciales de Valenciaport, Athens University of Economics and Business

Social Media:

• LinkedIn: @imagine-b5g
• Twitter/X: @B5gImagine

IoT-NGIN

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IoT-NGIN introduces novel research and innovation concepts, acting as the “IoT Engine” which will fuel the Next Generation of IoT as a part of the European Next Generation Internet. IoT-NGIN uncovers a pattern-based meta-architecture that encompasses evolving, legacy, and future IoT architectures. The project also optimizes IoT/M2M and 5G/MCM communications, including using secure-by-design micro-services to extend the edge cloud paradigm. Moreover, it enables user and self-aware, autonomous IoT systems through privacy-preserving federated ML and ambient intelligence, with AR support for humans. Distributed IoT cybersecurity and privacy, for example, using Self-Sovereign Identities and interconnected DLTs to implement Meta-Level Digital Twins, are also among the main priorities of IoT-NGIN. The developed 5G Resource Management API in IoT-NGIN utilizes ETSI OSM as the NFV MANO for the orchestration of container-based network services to be deployed in the edge. The developed API will also enable the service migration for IoT devices so that they can run their processes as container-based network services in the 5G edge cloud.

Project Partners: Capgemini, ATOS, Ericsson, ASEA Brown Boveri (ABB), INTRASOFT International, ENGINEERING, Bosch, ASM Terni, Forum Virium Helsinki Oy (FVH), Optimum, EBOS Technologies Limited (EBOS), Privanova, Synelixis, Cumucore, Emotion SRL, AALTO University (AALTO), Fundació i2CAT, RWTH Aachen University, Sorbonne University

NEPHELE

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NEPHELE aims to enable the efficient, reliable and secure end-to-end orchestration of hyper-distributed applications (HDAs) over programmable infrastructure that is spanning across the compute continuum from Cloud-to-Edge-to-IoT. As part of the advanced management of the network part of the compute continuum, Nephele will develop autonomic and ad-hoc functionalities covering Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) systems. Additionally, Nephele is a using an OCI-Registry (Open Container Initiative) to store NFV and SDN artifacts (xNF) compatible with the Open Source MANO (ETSI OSM) software stack, which is the building block of a development environment that aims to optimize the developers’ tasks and contribute to the interoperability of xNF providers and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).

Timeline: 01/09/2022 – 31/08/2025

Project Partners: National Technical University of Athens (NTUA, Coordinator); SIEMENS; IBM IRELAND LIMITED; SMILE; CONSORZIO NAZIONALE INTERUNIVERSITARIO PER LE TELECOMUNICAZIONI; ERCIM; WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS TECHNOLOGIES; ODIN SOLUTIONS; INRIA; INTERNET INSTITUTE (ININ); UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA; EVIDEN - ATOS; ECLIPSE FOUNDATION EUROPE; ESAOTE SPA; LUKA KOPER, PORT AND LOGISTIC SYSTEM; FUNDINGBOX; ALTER WAY;

Social Media:

• LinkedIn: @Nephele
• Twitter/X: @NepheleProject

NETEDGE

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The NETEDGE project is a Portuguese consortium that proposes developing an edge computing solution for fixed networks. Partners wish to pursue the development of an evolved Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) system that can be explored and replicated, creating sales, new business models, and opportunities for all participants. The research tasks include contributions beyond the state-of-the-art regarding security guarantees and the orchestration of the network of MEC Platforms. The prototype system will be tested in a relevant environment, facilitated by the participation of two industries that offer use cases to implement the technology. The pursued business model was the Business to Business to Consumer (B2B2C) because dstelecom is a connectivity wholesaler, thus having operators as its clients. Since MEC, according to the ETSI references, mainly contemplates the typical Business to Consumer (B2C) model, one of this project's main contributions was precisely adapting the original ETSI MEC architecture to such a scenario. Furthermore, this project was also concerned with the security problems of this computing paradigm. From this preoccupation, Moving Target Defense (MTD) and Zero Trust (ZT) were applied within the Edge Computing ecosystem to enhance its protection. Ultimately, all the created proofs of concept used ETSI OSM as the NFV-MANO, used to manage and orchestrate the overall MEC environment.

Project Partners: dstelecom, Bee Engineering, FAPAJAL, BYSTEEL FS, University of Minho, Instituto de Telecomunicações

ONOFRE-3

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The ONOFRE-3 project deals with a 5G/6G ecosystem featured by the heterogeneity of the edge, fog, and cloud processing layers for proper management of dynamic QoS application requirements running on mobile nodes. To overcome this complexity, AI and Machine Learning techniques for contextual information prediction and network management are proposed. AI/ML can also support both offline planning methods and multiaccess coordination and control and be deployed at end devices. In this scenario, security is also mandatory from the start, hence, advanced cloud data privacy and security techniques are proposed to be smoothly managed and controlled across different cloud computing domains. Finally, practical evaluation of these mechanisms needs a realistic application scenario with clear requirements. In this line, CCAM and C-ITS verticals are taken for reference evaluation, which provide clearly defined and demanding QoS requirements and serve as reference area to analyse and develop concrete and meaningful benchmarks in a massive latency-bounded slice. ONOFRE-3 studies and tests novel mechanisms at all the involved stages: offline network planning, online provisioning and management, multiple radio access and end devices. We propose to use intelligent orchestration of cloud, fog, and edge computing for CCAM and C-ITS, over a secured framework and supported by AI/ML techniques. The project outcomes are expected to have a significant economic and social impact. Cloud and edge computing advances brought by the project will contribute to the fields that will also drive the future ICT economy. Project results will also directly contribute to improve the Key Enabling Technologies identified for CCAM and should help accelerate its adoption. ONOFRE-3 makes use of ETSI OSM to orchestrate Network Services (NS) in Edge, C-ITS and CCAM scenarios.

Project Partners: Telecommunication Networks Engineering Group (Technical University of Cartagena), Optical Communications Group (University of Valladolid), i2CAT Foundation, Intelligent Systems and Telematics Group (University of Murcia)

Smart5Grid

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The Smart5Grid project will develop network applications tailored to the requirements of existing real operational issues faced by the modern smart energy grids, and thereby it will heavily contribute to the energy vertical ecosystem. NetApps will be consisted of appropriately chained VNFs that will be developed on the Smart5Grid platform and tested and validated on real power grid infrastructures and under true operational conditions. Then, the successful and wide adoption of the Smart5Grid NetApps will allow the smooth penetration of MNOs, telecoms, ICT industries and SMEs into the energy sector for provisioning novel network services, but also, it will offer automation and real-time inspection and control to the existing energy stakeholders. The real-life validation of the Smart5Grid NetApps has been planned to take place in four countries: Italy, Spain, Greece and Bulgaria and the demonstrated scenario and setup for each use case is described in the subpages. Smart5Grid uses Open Source Mano (OSM) to orchestrate the NetApp, i.e. OSM deploys the Network Services (NS) with their respective CNFs that are part of the NetApp when the NetApp Controller instructs OSM to do so. Follow us at @smart5grid

Partners: ENEL GLOBAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND NETWORKS S.R.L., HELLENIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS ORGANIZATION S.A. – OTE AE, VIVACOM, WIND TRE SPA, ATHONET SRL, AXON LOGIC LTD, EIGHT BELLS LTD, ENTRA ENERGY, INFOLYSIS P.C., NEARBY COMPUTING SL, NOSIA SRL., SIDROCO HOLDINGS LIMITED, SOFTWARE COMPANY EOOD, SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGICAL COMPANY LTD, STAM Srl, UBITECH ENERGY, UBIWHERE LDA, ATOS IT SOLUTIONS AND SERVICES IBERIA SL, ENGINEERING – INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA, ELEKTROENERGIEN SISTEMEN OPERATOR EAD, INDEPENDENT POWER TRANSMISSION OPERATOR S.A., ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA, UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS

SN4I

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The SN4I - Smart Networks for Industry, is an NFV and SDN aware communication facility that interconnects the University of the Basque Country with the Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Centre. SN4I provides network, computing and storage slicing for the deployment of isolated concurrent services and experimentation. This deployment will allow to study the integration of NFV technologies with the Industrial Internet protocols and the coexistence with other networks like TSN (Time Sensitive Networks). Therefore, SN4I will complement traditional research and activities in the field of manufacturing, with state of the art technologies providing high bandwidth, low delay, on demand service creation, SDN based security, etc. The integration of all these technologies with cutting-edge machine tools and manufacturing processes will allow to provide a mixed R+D+I center in advanced connected manufacturing technologies that will become a reference at international level. In SN4I, OpenSourceMANO (ETSI OSM) is used to: design and test locally, for later deploying services in the infrastructure. orchestrate the different VNFs that compose the services. provide dynamic connectivity (with assured bandwidth and resiliency) between the Data Centers over the SDN core network. The I2T Research Group in the University of the Basque Country hosted the first co-located ETSI NFV and OSM meeting in February 2017 and has contributed the following components to ETSI OSM: The ONOS VIM Connector (OSM Release TWO) The DynPaC - A Path Computation Framework for SDN - WIM Connector (OSM Release FIVE)

Project Partners: University of the Basque Country, Aeronautics Advanced Manufacturing Center

Vital-5G

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Vertical Innovations in Transport And Logistics over 5G experimentation facilities (VITAL-5G) The pan-European Transport & Logistics (T&L) eco-system is one of the most promising adopters of 5G. VITAL-5G is developing an intuitive and production-ready orchestration framework for provisioning and experimental validation of T&L services, providing an open repository of T&L NetApps to speed up the creation of new services in this sector. The availability of flexible and intuitive tools and APIs for design, management and orchestration of T&L NetApps will facilitate the transfer of 5G-empowered services from trials/pilot stages to production, overcoming the limitations that exist today for industry verticals operating T&L virtualised services in a 5G network. VITAL-5G is developing a flexible platform to serve the specific needs of the T&L sector focused on the design, creation, deployment and management of NetApps and their validation in real-life conditions and customizable 5G infrastructures. The project targets three main use cases with trials planned in three T&L experimentation areas featuring 5G connectivity and edge/cloud infrastructures at the Port of Antwerp, Port of Galati on Danube River, and in a logistics hub in Athens. Beyond the industry leaders and SMEs in the VITAL-5G consortium, the project will involve third-party experimenters to expand the initial offer to a larger set of close-to-market NetApps scenarios and provide a wider baseline for the T&L NetApps business ecosystem. All VITAL-5G testbeds adopt ETSI OSM as NFV Orchestrator for the provisioning and management of network services composed of NetApps, which are modelled as enhanced VNFs, VM-based or container-based, with specific requirements in terms of 5G mobile connectivity. VITAL-5G testbeds integrate edge and cloud nodes managed via OpenStack or Kubernetes, deploying OSM at the NFVO level. The VITAL-5G open online repository offers a centralized catalogue of NetApp packages, for vertical-agnostic and vertical-specific NetApps, which is automatically synchronized with the OSM catalogues in the three testbeds. Service providers and application developers from third parties can use the VITAL-5G portal to onboard additional NetApps or T&L services, composing the software assets available in the catalogue. The platform mediates the interaction with the various testbeds and OSM instances, offering an extensive set of vertical-oriented tools and features to design and build new T&L services, orchestrate their provisioning and validate their performance over configurable 5G infrastructures and network slices. The adoption of OSM simplifies the interoperability with the various edge and cloud platforms and unifies the NetApps onboarding procedure over the three testbeds, facilitating their provisioning and their interconnection with specialized network slices and IoT/T&L devices. OSM features for monitoring and VNF configuration are integrated in the VITAL-5G experiment management procedures, for automated execution of testing actions, as well as collection and analysis of application, infrastructure and network KPIs during the T&L service trials. Follow us at @5gVital

Project Partners: WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IKE (WINGS), BEIA CONSULT INTERNATIONAL SRL, DHL EXEL SUPPLY CHAIN SPAIN SL, DIAKINISIS A.E APOTHIKEFSEISMETAFORES SYSKEVASIES, DIGITRANS, EBOS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, ASOCIATIA TEHNOPOL – GALATI, INTERUNIVERSITAIR MICROELECTRONICA CENTRUM INCELLIGENT IDIOTIKI KEFALAIOUCHIKIETAIREIA, INLECOM GROUP, COMPANIA DE NAVIGATIE FLUVIALA ROMANA NAVROM SA, NEXTWORKS, TELENET GROUP, ORANGE ROMANIA SA, ORGANISMOS TILEPIKOINONION TIS ELLADOS OTE AE, SEAFAR.

P2CODE

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P2CODE envisions the design and development of an open platform for the deployment and dynamic management of end user applications, over distributed, heterogeneous and trusted IoT-Edge node infrastructures, with enhanced programmability features and tools at both the network infrastructure level and the service design and operational level. P2CODE tackles 5G-based infrastructures where both compute and network resources can be deployed on demand. To this end, The P2CODE resource manager (ETSI OSL) leverages ETSI OSM to deploy the 5GC control and user plane functions on a designated infrastructure on behalf of the operator. This way OSM acts as an NFVO for 5G network functions. Stay tunned, join us in our social network: LINKEDIN YOUTUBE @P2CODE_eu

Completed Projects

5G-CARMEN

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The 5G-CARMEN project is a medium-term effort to significantly drive the research, implementation, and demonstration of refined 5G solutions for the Cooperative, Connected, and Automated Mobility. In 5G-CARMEN important European industries, academics and innovative SMEs commit to achieve worldwide impact by conducting extensive trials across an important corridor (by people/goods traffic volumes), from Bologna to Munich, spanning 600 km of roads, connecting three European regions (Bavaria, Tirol and Trentino/South-Tyrol) across three countries. Cooperative maneuvering, situation awareness, video streaming, and green driving are the cross-border use cases targeted by 5G-CARMEN pilots in order to maximize the project commercial, societal, end environmental impact. 5G-CARMEN uses OSM as top level service orchestrator with extension to operate in cross-country/cross-operator settings. Follow us at @5g_carmen

Project Partners: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Deutsche Telekom Ag, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft, Centro Ricerche Fiat Scpa, Societa Per Azioni Autostrada Del Brennero (Brenner-autobahn), Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane S.p.a., Telecom Italia Spa, T-mobile Austria Gmbh, Nec Laboratories Europe Gmbh, Nokia Solutions And Networks Gmbh &co Kg, Qualcomm Cdma Technologies Gmbh, Swarco Mizar Srl, Swarco Traffic Systems Gmbh, Eight Bells Ltd, Commagility Limited, Cyberlens B.v., Drivesec Srl, Wings Ict Solutions Information & Communication Technologies Epe, Commissariat A L Energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Per Le Telecomunicazioni, Interuniversitair Micro-electronica Centrum, Promozione Per L Innovazione Fra Industria E Universita Associazione, Universitat Politecnica De Valencia, Kompetenzzentrum – Das Virtuelle Fahrzeug, Forschungsgesellschaft Mbh, Vereinigung High Tech Marketing, Libera Universita Di Bolzano

5GCity

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5GCity is a 5GPPP Phase2 project, which is defining and building a platform that allows a city’s ICT infrastructure to be used for neutral hosting in a distributed and multi-tenant Cloud-to-Edge environment. This platform uses orchestration and service programming to integrate 5G services administered by a neutral host. These 5G services will be used by municipalities to host Smart City services, by Virtual Network Operators (VNO) to extend their networks, and by additional third party providers such as media or automotive verticals to offer innovative services to their customers. 5GCity plans to contribute and extend ETSI OSM in several directions: Slice Manager functionality in line with 5GCity slice Information Models. An Infrastructure Abstraction component able to connect OSM to Edge and Extended Edge VIMs. Define the usage of the OSM NBI to connect "neutral hosting"-oriented Dashboard and SDK to the orchestration platform. Integration of OSM with ETSI MEC by using a thin layer on top of the two orchestrators (NFVO and MEC-O), pre-processing and dispatching the Services to one of the two according to appropriate descriptor extensions.

Project Partners: Ajuntament de Barcelona, University of Bristol, Citta di Lucca, Accelleran, ADLINK, Beteve, Comunicare Digitale, i2CAT, Incites Consulting, Italtel, MOG, NEC, Nextworks, Rai, Retevision, Ubiwhere, Virtual Open Systems, Wind Tre

5Genesis

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The Genesis of 5G has entered the crucial phase of experimentation, and currently faces the challenge to validate the 5G network KPIs and verify the 5G technologies with an end-to-end approach. Towards this objective, a key challenge is to integrate all the highly diverse results and technologies from EU, global as well as internal (corporate) R&D projects, to “glue together” the 5G picture and unveil the potential of a truly full-stack, end-to-end 5G platform, able to meet the defined KPI targets. In this context, the main goal of 5GENESIS will be to validate 5G KPIs for various 5G use cases, in both controlled set-ups and large-scale events. This will be achieved by bringing together results from a considerable number of EU projects as well as the partners’ internal R&D activities in order to realise an integrated End-to-end 5G Facility. 5GENESIS has chosen ETSI OSM as MANO solution in four out of its five local platforms. The 5GENESIS Facility, as a whole, will: Implement and verify all evolutions of the 5G standard, via an iterative integration and testing procedure; Engage a wide diversity of technologies and chain innovations that span over all domains, achieving full-stack coverage of the 5G landscape; Unify heterogeneous physical and virtual network elements under a common coordination and openness framework exposed to experimenters from the vertical industries and enabling end-to-end slicing and experiment automation; and Support further experimentation projects, in particular those focused on vertical markets. The five platforms of the 5GENESIS Facility, and their main features/orientation, are: The Athens Platform. An edge-computing-enabled shared radio infrastructure (gNBs and small cells), with different ranges and overlapping coverage that are supported by an SDN/NFV enabled core, to showcase secure content delivery and low latency applications in large public-events. The Málaga Platform. Automated orchestration and management of different network slices over multiple domains, on top of the 5G NR and fully virtualised core network to showcase mission critical services in the lab and in outdoor deployments. The Limassol Platform. Radio interfaces of different characteristics and capabilities, combining terrestrial and satellite communications, integrated to showcase service continuity and ubiquitous access in underserved areas. The Surrey Platform. Multiple radio access technologies that can support massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC), including 5G NR and NB-IoT, combined under a flexible Radio Resource Management (RRM) and spectrum sharing platform to showcase massive IoT services. The Berlin platform: Ultra dense areas covered by various network deployments, ranging from indoor nodes to nomadic outdoor clusters, coordinated via advanced backhauling technologies to showcase immersive service provisioning.

Project Partners: National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Universidad de Málaga, INTEL Deutschland GmbH, Telefónica I+D, ERICSSON LMI, ATOS Spain SA, AIRBUS DS SLC, COSMOTE Mobile Telecommunications S.A., PrimeTeL PLC, FON Technology S.L., FOKUS-Fraunhofer Gesellschaeft e.V., Institute for Open Communication System, EURECOM, Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics GmbH, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Simula Research Laboratory AS, Space Hellas (Cyprus) Ltd., ATHONET Srl, Nemergent Solutions SL, RunEL NGMT Ltd, INFOLYSIS P.C., Avanti HYLAS 2 Cyprus Ltd, FOGUS Innovations & Services P.C., OneAccess, University of Surrey, Karlstad University, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, MARAN (UK) Ltd. – Private Enterprise for Shipbrokers and agents, Municipality of Egaleo, Ayuntamiento de Málaga

5G ESSENCE

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5G ESSENCE is a 5G PPP Phase2 research and innovation project that addresses the paradigms of Edge Cloud Computing and Small Cell as a Service. The proposed architecture enables high-performance virtualisation techniques for data isolation, latency reduction and resource efficiency, by orchestrating lightweight virtual resources, enabling efficient Virtualized Network Function placement and live migration. 5G ESSENCE project has selected ETSI OSM as orchestrator for the platform. It uses OpenStack as VIM and OpenDaylight as SDN controller. 5G ESSENCE is working on OSM adoption for guest optimization techniques, i.e., Unikernels as VMs.

Project Partners: Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., NEC Laboratories Europe, Intel Research and Development Ireland Limited, Zodiac Inflight Innovations, ATOS Spain S.A., IS-Wireless, Wind TRE S.p.A., Athonet SRL, Fundació i2CAT, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), CREATE-NET (Center for Research and Telecommunication Experimentation for Networked Communities), Smart Mobile Labs GmbH, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, CapriTech Limited, British Association of Public Safety Communications Officials, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Thales Communications & Security SAS, ITALTEL S.P.A., ORION Innovations, Universidad del Pais Vasco/ Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (EHU), EIGHT BELLS LTD, Municipality of Egaleo, NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Casa Communications Technology

5G EVE

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5G EVE is the European 5G validation platform for extensive trials. It is one of three 5G PPP infrastructure projects started on 1st July 2018. The goal is to implement and test advanced 5G infrastructures in Europe. The 5G-EVE concept is based on further developing and interconnecting existing European sites in in Greece, Spain, France, and Italy to form a unique 5G end-to-end facility. 5G EVE sites are orchestrated locally by ETSI OSM, ONAP or propietary orchestrators.

Project Partners: Telecom Italia SPA, Orange SA, Orange Romania SA, Orange Polska Spolka Akcyjna, Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo, Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A., Ericsson España S.A., Ericsson Hellas S.A., Ericsson Telecomunicazioni S.p.A., NOKIA BELL LABS France, WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS PC, B-COM, NEXTWORKS S.r.l., Città di Torino, AUTOMATISMOS Y SISTEMAS DE TRANSPORTE INTERNO S.A.U., Trenitalia S.p.A., Applied Research to Technologies S.R.L., Telcaria Ideas S.L., IDC Italia srl, Eurescom – European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH, Promozione per l’Innovazione fra Industria e Università Associazione PIIU, EURECOM, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni, Sociedad Estatal para la Gestión de Innovación y las Tecnologías Turísticas S.A., Electricité de France.

5GinFIRE

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5GinFIRE is a three-year project under the EU programme Horizon 2020, which started on January 2017. The project aspires to establish a NFV-enabled experimental testbed for 5G technologies, capable of instantiating and supporting vertical industries based on industry-leading and open source technologies. The core testbed is distributed across different locations, including Spain, Portugal, UK and Greece, and other facilities across Europe will be integrated. In 5GinFIRE, ETSI OSM plays a significant role, being chosen as the open source solution to provide the management and orchestration functionalities for the NV experimentation platform. Being framed under the EU FIRE initiative, half of the project budget is dedicated to third parties (experimenters and 5G experimental facilities owners/operators), which will be selected through the planned 5GINFIRE Open Calls. 5GinFIRE is currently contributing to OpenSourceMANO in several directions: Widening the configuration options for VNFs (e.g., through Ansible). Exploring the means for integrating SFC technologies into the OSM orchestration services. Security enhancements through the application of Keystone. Exploring the application of OSM in new 5G vertical markets, such as ITS and eHealth. Analyzing and testing novel disruptive use cases of network service orchestration and, in particular, extending the 5G programable network infrastructure over delimited areas using networks of micro-drones.

Project Partners: Eurescom, B-COM, Easy Global Market, Instituto de Telecomunicações. Telefonica I+D, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, University of Bristol, University of Patras, Universidad Federal de Uberlandia, University of São Paulo

5G-MEDIA

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5G-MEDIA is a 5G-PPP Phase 2 project that is working to integrate media-industry applications with the underlying 5G programmable service platform based on SDN/NFV technologies. The 5G-MEDIA Service Virtualization Platform (SVP) includes components of the ETSI MANO architecture and specifically we have selected ETSI OSM for the functions related to Service and Resource orchestration on top of three types of VIMs (OpenStack, OpenNebula and Apache OpenWhisk). In particular, the 5G-MEDIA team is working on orchestration and lifecycle management of NS(s) and VNF(s) for media services, from which potential contributions to OSM can originate: VIM plugin for OpenNebula VIM plugin for the serverless cloud platform OpenWhisk A generic App & Service catalogue to interface to multiple NFVOs, capable of managing standard formats for descriptors (ETSI NFV SOL004, ETSI NFV SOL001) via standard aligned APIs (ETSI NFV SOL005) and collect catalogue elements from multiple service providers, each with its own specialised offer of VNF(s) and NS(s) Integration of OpenID Connect as a standard authentication protocol to support a single Identity Provider and multiple resource providers scenario with authentication based on the user profile information Extensions for Function as a Service emulation in vim-emu

Project Partners: Engineering, IBM, Singular Logic, OTE, rTVE, University College London (UCL), Telefonica I+D, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), IRT, Nextworks, CERTH/ITI, NETAS, Interinnov, BitTubes, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos"

5G-RANGE

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The goal of 5G-RANGE, a European project involving Brazilian universities and research entities, is to design, develop, and validate the mechanisms to enable the 5G network to provide an economically effective solution for Internet access for remote areas. 5G-RANGE aims at developing a Remote area Access Network for 5G that can be used to provide reliable and cost-effective Internet access in low populated areas, as well as enable new agribusiness services and support high mobility coverage for highways. High cost of spectrum and low population density are the main barriers for widespread deployment of Internet broadband access in remote areas. 5G-RANGE proposes the opportunistic usage of TVWS (TV White Spaces) in the VHF (Very High Frequency) and UHF (Ultra High Frequency) bands. The project also explores cost-effective approaches to extend the network infrastructure offered by the 5G-RANGE access network, e.g. to support network communications beyond the boundaries of the radio cells. In particular, 5G-RANGE considers small-size drones, which may be deployed over delimited geographic areas, as well as other ground units that may be opportunistically available within that areas (e.g., harvesters and tractors). Network Functions Virtualization technologies play a important role in the project, supporting the automated deployment of network-layer components, not only in the core of the network, but also over the infrastructure of resource-constrained aerial and ground vehicles. In 5G-RANGE, OSM has been selected as the software platform to support NFV MANO services in the final Proof-of-concept (PoC). Contributions to OSM come from the exploration of novel use cases that can be enabled with OSM and NFV-capable resource-constrained mobile platforms, such as unmanned aerial vehicles; and from the development of lightweight VNFs and network servicers that may relevant in that use cases (these will be released under an open source license). A video article reflecting the progress made is available here

Project Partners: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Technische Universität Dresden, University of Oulu, Telefónica I+D, Instituto Nacional de Telecomunicações, Centro de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento em Telecomunicações, Universidade de São Paulo, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Universidade de Brasília, Ericsson do Brasil.

5GROWTH

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5GROWTH is a European Horizon 2020 5G PPP Phase 3 project started in June 2019, which deals with the technical and business validation of 5G technologies from the verticals’ points of view, following a field-trial-based approach on vertical sites (TRL 6-7). Its vision is to empower verticals industries, such as Industry 4.0, Transportation, and Energy with an AI-driven Automated and Sharable 5G End-to-End Solution that will allow these industries to simultaneously achieve their respective key performance targets. Towards this vision, 5Growth will automate the process for supporting diverse industry verticals through: i) a vertical portal in charge of interfacing verticals with the 5G End-to-End platforms, receiving their service requests and building the respective network slices on top, ii) closed-loop automation and Service Level Agreement (SLA) control for vertical services lifecycle management, and iii) AI/ML-driven end-to-end network solutions to jointly optimize Access, Transport, Core and Cloud, Edge and Fog resources, across multiple technologies and domains. 5GROWTH extends the 5G-TRANSFORMER platform by adding the above features as well as the integration with 5G-EVE and 5G-VINNI experimentation platforms. The 5GROWTH Service Orchestrator (5Gr-SO) integrates ETSI OSM as one of its core MANO platforms. In fact, OSM is integrated through a wrapper that automatically translates ETSI NFV IFA requests into OSM requests, hence embedding it into the lifecycle management operations of the 5Gr-SO as far as cloud resources are concerned. In this way, the advantages of OSM are added to the functionality offered by the 5Gr-SO. It features (among others): end-to-end multi-technology, multi-site and multi-administrative domain network service federation, composite network service handling (as basis for the support of network slices consisting of multiple network subnet slices), integration with Prometheus as monitoring platform, integration with data engineering pipeline (e.g., Spark, Kafka), integration with the 5GROWTH AIML (Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning) platform, automated AIML-based SLA management (e.g., service scaling). The 5GROWTH MANO stack is being integrated in the pre-commercial industry 4.0, transportation and energy pilots developed in the project. Code available at: https://5growth.eu/open-source/ . Follow us at @5growth_eu and Linkedin

Project Partners: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, NEC Laboratories Europe GMBH, Ericsson España S.A., Ericsson Telecomunicazioni S.P.A., InterDigital Europe LTD, Nokia Bell NV, Telecom Italia S.P.A., Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo SA, Altice Labs S.A., Comau S.P.A., EFACEC Energia – Maquinas e equipamentos Electricos S.A., EFACEC Engenharia e Sistemas S.A., Asociación de Empresas Tecnológicas Innovalia, MIRANTIS Poland Spolka z Ograniczona Odpowiedzialnoscia, Nextworks, Telcaria Ideas S.L., Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Instituto de Telecomunicacoes, Ethniko kai Kapodistriako Panepistimio Athinon, Politecnico di Torino, Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant’Anna

5Gtango

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5Gtango is a 5GPPP Phase2 Innovation Action that enables the flexible programmability of 5G networks with: a) an NFV-enabled Service Development Kit (SDK); b) a Store platform with advanced validation and verification mechanisms for VNFs/Network Services qualification (including 3rd party contributions); and, c) a modular Service Platform with an innovative orchestrator in order to bridge the gap between business needs and network operational management systems. 5Gtango has contributing to ETSI OSM Rel FIVE with: the support of novel packaging formats aligned with ETSI NFV SOL004. IM improvements and a Slice Manager allowing the deployment of 5G Network Slices with OSM.

Project Partners: Atos, NEC, Altice Labs, Telefonica, Huawei, Nokia, University of Paderborn, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", CTTC, imec, Weidmueller, Nurogames, Synelixis, University of Piraeus Research Center, Quobis, Easy Global Market, Ubitech

5G-TRANSFORMER

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5G-TRANSFORMER is a 5G PPP Phase2 project that addresses the transformation of today’s rigid mobile transport networks into an SDN/NFV-based 5G Mobile Transport and Computing Platform (MTP) supporting the specific needs of vertical industries. Current considered verticals in 5G-TRANSFORMER are: automotive, eHealth, media & entertainment, cloud robotics and mobile virtual network operators (MVNO). In order to do so, 5G-TRANSFORMER proposes a novel architecture aligned with ETSI NFV Interface and Information Model Specifications (IFA) that defines four main building blocks: the Vertical Slicer (5GT-VS) as the vertical front-end and the common entry point for all verticals, the Service Orchestrator (5GT-SO) as the E2E service orchestration platform, the Mobile Transport and Computing Platform (5GT-MTP) as the underlying unified transport stratum for integrated fronthaul and backhaul networks, and the Monitoring platform (5GT-MON) in charge of service and performance monitoring. Our key technical solutions are (1) Network Slicing to enable the provisioning and managing slices tailored to the needs of different verticals; and (2) the aggregation and federation of transport networking and computing fabric, from the edge all the way to the core and cloud using efficient contextual Virtual Network Function placement algorithms for dynamic deployment of multi-site network services while satisfying the specific demanding requirements of vertical industries. The 5G-TRANSFORMER project has selected OpenSourceMANO (ETSI OSM) to be integrated within the 5GT-SO module to show the capabilities of this module to interoperate with multiple open source orchestration platforms and to exploit their services. More specifically, 5G- TRANSFORMER uses OSM as one of its MANO platforms inside the 5GT-SO to allow 5G- TRANSFORMER service providers to automatically deploy 5G network services providing the capability of managing their life-cycle over a distributed and multi-tenant Cloud infrastructure. OSM is integrated inside the Service Orchestrator through a wrapper to handle the network service workflow process and the translation/adaptation of network service descriptions and parameters as far as cloud resources are concerned. In this respect, it interacts with the underlying cloud resources that are then stitched with WAN and other cloud resources by the 5GT-SO. Code available at: http://5g-transformer.eu/index.php/dissemination/open-source/

Project Partners: University Carlos III of Madrid, NEC Laboratories Europe, Ericsson, Atos Spain S.A, Nokia Networks, InterDigital, Telefonica I+D, Orange, Centro Richerche Fiat, Samur, BCom, Nextworks, Mirantis, Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Politecnico di Torino, Eurecom, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA) and Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).

5G-VINNI

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5G-VINNI is a 5GPPP Phase 3 project, started in July 2018. The project is committed to leverage the latest 5G technologies, including results from previous 5GPPP phases, employing advanced network virtualization, slicing, radio and core technologies. In addition a rigorous automated testing campaign will be employed to validate 5G under various combinations of technologies and network loads. 5G-VINNI will be run at four main sites located in Norway, UK, Spain and Greece. In addition, experimental sites will be established in Germany and Portugal. Open APIs will be provided in order to ensure easy access to the 5G-VINNI facility ans ETSI OSM is one of the NFV orchestration engines of choice. 5G-VINNI plans to contribute to OSM in several ways: With direct applicability experience in the deployment of 5G end-to-end services With the feedback from vertical users in realistic 5G and slicing scenarios With results of the integration of automated testing into the OSM stack

Project Partners: Telenor ASA, British Telecommunications PLC (BT), Telefonica I+D, Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GMBH, Huawei Technologies Norway, Ericsson AS, Nokia Solutions And Networks OY, Softwate Radio Systems Limited, Lime Mycrosystems LTD, EANTC, Keysight Technologies, Simula Research Laboratory AS, Fraunhofer, Eurescom GMBH, Altice Labs SA, Panepistimio Patron, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Athens University of Economics and business - Research Center, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, SES Techcom SA, Cisco Norway AS, Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica SPA

5GZORRO

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Despite the progress of last years, 5G today is not yet at a stage of complete achievement of the promised performances and functions: different application profiles (eMBB, URLLC, mMTC) do not easily coexist in network slices; slicing is casted in various different forms; network analytics are not at end-to-end scope; services do not span multiple operator domains yet. 5GZORRO consortium envisions the evolution of 5G to achieve truly production-level support of diverse Vertical applications, which coexist on a highly pervasive shared network infrastructure, through automated end-to-end network slicing, across multiple operators and infrastructure/resource providers, who can share heterogeneous types of resources (spectrum, virtualized radio access, virtualized edge/core). 5GZORRO uses distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to implement cognitive network orchestration and management with minimal manual intervention (Zero-Touch Automation). Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are adopted to implement flexible and efficient distributed security and trust across the various parties involved in a 5G end-to-end service chain. With these, we can implement an evolved 5G Service Layer for Smart Contracts among multiple non-trusted parties, to allow SLA monitoring, spectrum sharing, intelligent and automated data-driven resource discovery and management. Our cross domain security & trust orchestration coupled with service lifecycle automation can enforce security policies in multi-tenant and multi-stakeholder environments. Three use cases validate our research in 5GBarcelona and 5TONIC/Madrid test facilities: Smart Contracts for Ubiquitous Computing/Connectivity, Dynamic Spectrum Allocation, and Pervasive virtual CDNs over 3rd-party edge resources. 5GZORRO target stakeholders are telecom operators, vertical slice owners/operators, spectrum owners, regulators, passive/ active facility owners, many of which are in our consortium of 13 top 5G players from 7 different EU countries. 5GZORRO integrates with an enhanced zero-touch management and orchestration solution capable to provide intra- and cross-domain network services and network slice, strictly coupled with 5G infrastructure management and monitoring functions. The 5GZORRO zero-touch orchestration sub-system executes business and workflow orchestration strictly integrated with the 5GZORRO Telecom Marketplace, and specifically manages lifecycles of network slices and network services spanning multiple administrative domains (cross-domain). At the single domain level, ETSI OSM is used to implement the domain specific NFVO functionality, and implement the related lifecycle management actions for the service chunks in scope. In 5GZORRO, OSM integrates with capabilities for resource discovery and product offering, multi-domain monitoring, deployment in secure and trusted VIM zones (TEE), deployment in cloud-native VIMs.

Project Partners: Fundació i2CAT, Internet i Innovació Digital a Catalunya; Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo SA; Intracom SA; Nextworks S.r.l.; Universidad de Murcia; BARTR Holdings Limited; Comunicare Digitale APS; Malta Communications Authority; Ubiwhere Lda; Fondazione Bruno Kessler; IBM - Israel Science & Technology Ltd; Altice Labs SA; ATOS Spain SA.

Containernet

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Containernet is a fork of the famous Mininet network emulator and allows to use Docker containers as hosts in emulated network topologies. This enables interesting functionalities to build networking/cloud emulators and testbeds. One example for this is the NFV multi-PoP infrastructure emulator "vim-emu" which was created by the SONATA-NFV project and is now part of the OpenSource MANO (ETSI OSM) project. Besides this, Containernet is actively used by the research community, focusing on experiments in the field of cloud computing, fog computing, network function virtualization (NFV), and mobile edge computing (MEC).

Project Partners: Paderborn University

INSPIRE-5Gplus

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IINSPIRE-5Gplus is committed to advance security of 5G and Beyond networks via two main approaches: (1) by leveraging/extending existing assets such as Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), Remote Attestation/Path Proof/RCA (Root Cause Analysis), and end-to-end liability management between parties, and (2) by introducing novel solutions/paradigms exploiting the potential of new trends including AI/ML and Blockchains. The project outcomes will serve the crucial objectives of intelligent security and pervasive trust for future connected systems where Security will not be software-defined only, but will also be governed by Algorithms (AI, ML, Modelling, Optimization) to realize new concepts such as pro-active security while being trustworthy. INSPIRE-5Gplus integrates security for 5G domains based on NFV infrastructure. Security management is delegated to security and service VNFs deployed and orchestrated by the ETSI OSM functionality, interconnecting different OSM’s through an integration fabric inspired on ETSI ZSM. Follow us on Twitter @INSPIRE_5Gplus

Project Partners: European Institute for Research and Strategic Studies in Telecommunications GmbH, Thales SIX GTS France STS, AALTO University, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Cyberlens B.V., National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Montimage EURL, Orange SA, Orange Polska, TAGES, Telefónica I+D, University of OULU, University of Murcia, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Metro-Haul

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The overall Metro-Haul objective is to architect and design cost-effective, energy-efficient, agile and programmable metro networks that are scalable for 5G access and future requirements, encompassing the design of all-optical metro nodes (including full compute and storage capabilities), which interface effectively with both 5G access and multi-Tbit/s elastic core networks. Metro-Haul project is contributing to ETSI OSM Rel FIVE a WAN Infrastructure Manager (WIM) plugin model that will enable the integration of different WAN control API technologies in the dynamic establishment of multi-site network services across WAN networks.

Project Partners: British Telecommunications, Telecom Italia, Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Telefonica I+D, University of Bristol, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Naudit High Performance Computing and Networking, Openlightcomm, Lexden Technologies, Zeetta Networks, Fraunhofer HHI, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), Coriant Portugal Unipessoal, Ericsson Telecomunicazioni, Adva Optical Networking, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs France, Old Dog Consulting, SeeTech, Alcatel-Lucent Italia, Politecnico di Milano

MATILDA

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The vision of MATILDA is to design and implement a holistic 5G end-to-end services operational framework tackling the lifecycle of design, development and orchestration of 5G-ready applications and 5G network services over virtual and physical infrastructure, following a unified programmability model and a set of control abstractions. OpenSourceMANO (ETSI OSM) is the engine used for the orchestration of the 5G network services leveraging its multi-site management feature, allowing the cloud/edge computing. Matilda develops components at the OSS layer to deploy the 5G applications over network-aware dynamic slices, taking care of the placement of the components regarding the QoS/QoE required by the user.

Project Partners: Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Atos, Ericsson, Intrasoft, Cosmote Kinites Tilepikoinonies, Orange Romania, Exxpertsystems GMBH, Ubitech, Internet Institute Communications and Consulting, Incelligent Idiotiki Kefalaiouchiki Etaireia, Suite5 Data Intelligence Solutions, National Center for Scientific Research "DEMOKRITOS", University of Bristol, Aalto-Korkeakoulusaatio, University of Piraeus Research Center, Italtel, Bremer Institut fuer Produktion und Logistik GMBH (BIBA)

NGPaaS

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The NGPaaS project envisages 5G as: a build-to-order platform, with components, features and performance, developed through a “Dev-for-Operations” model that extends the IT industry’s DevOps approach to support a multi-sided platform between operators, vendors and verticals; and with revised Operational and Business Support Systems (OSS/BSS) to reflect the new parameters and highly dynamic environment. NGPaaS adapts and makes compatible OpenSourceMano installation processes to the platform to allow operators to automatically deploy ETSI OSM providing the capability of managing their network services inside a telco PaaS.

Project Partners: Vertical M2M, Imec, Universitá degli Studi di Milano Bicocca (UNIMIB), British Telecom, Atos, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Virtual Open Systems (VoSys), Nokia, b<>com, Orange, Onapp, Nokia Bell Labs

NR5-G

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NRG-5 is a 5G-PPP Phase 2 project aiming at developing a novel 5G PPP-compliant software framework specifically tailored to the energy domain, which combines trusted, scalable and lock-in free plug ‘n’ play support for a variety of constrained devices; 5G devices’ abstractions to demonstrate xMBB, uMTC and mMTC communications coupled with partially distributed, trusted, end-to-end security and machine-cloud-machine to enable secure, scalable and energy efficient communications; extended Mobile Edge Computing (xMEC) micro-clouds to reduce backhaul load, increase the overall network capacity and reduce delays, while facilitating the deployment of generic MTC related NFVs and utility-centric VNFs; extensions to OpenSourceMANO (ETSI OSM) predictive analytics framework to support automated, dynamic, elastic VNF reconfiguration. Extensive lab based validation will be complemented with real life demonstrations in two pilot sites (Italy, France) where proof-of-concept implementations for 5G-enabled electricity and gas distribution network optimized management will be offered, while offering support to 5G PPP phase III projects via demonstrating high replication potential towards other verticals.

Project Partners: Engineering - Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Thales Six GTX France Sas, Singularlogic Anonymi Etaireia Pliroforiakon Systimaton Kai Efarmogon Pliroforikis, Ineo Energy And Systems, Societatea Nationala De Gaze Naturale Romgaz SA, Asm Terni Spa, British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, Wind Tre Spa, Hispasat SA, Power Operations Limited, Visiona Ingenieria De Proyectos Sl, Optimum Anonimi Etairia Technologies Pliroforikis, Emotion SRL, Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Institut Jozef Stefan, Technologiko Ekpedeftiko Idrima Stereas Elladas, Sorbonne Universite, Centrul Roman Al Energiei - CRE, Rutgers, The State University Of New Jersey, Keysight Technologies Denmark APS, Universidad De Malaga

PALANTIR

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PALANTIR aims to provide multi-layered, infrastructure-wide threat monitoring, risk assessment, cyber-resiliency (both at security and integrity levels) and knowledge sharing in a heterogeneous ecosystem. To this end, different Machine Learning (ML) models are applied to detect threats based on different sources from the infrastructure; and adequate Security-as-a-Service (SecaaS) are orchestrated based in the Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) architecture whenever a threat is detected or whenever there is an integrity breach of the systems, reported by the Trusted Computing (TC) techniques. ETSI OSM Release TEN is used in PALANTIR by interacting with its NBI to handle the packages onboarded, manage the lifecycle management of Cloud-Native Functions (CNFs) deployed in bare-metal multi-k8s cluster and configured by day2-actions, as well as reusing some of the data collected by OSM from the internal constructs on the infrastructure (at VNF and VIM level) and data parsed from the packages. Follow us on Twitter at: @ProjectPalantir

Project Partners: DBC Europe, DIADIKASIA Business Consulting, Fundació i2CAT, Sfera IT, Universidad de Murcia, Hewlett-Packard Limited (Labs), inCITES Consulting, NEC Laboratories Europe, Infili Technologies Private Company, National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Orion Innovations Private Company, Politecnico di Torino, Space Hellas, Telefónica I+D, UBITECH, STRATIOTIKI SXOLI EVELPIDON, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

PLEDGER

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The PLEDGER project aims at delivering a new architectural paradigm and a toolset that will pave the way for next generation edge computing infrastructures, tackling the modern challenges faced today and coupling the benefits of low latencies on the edge, with the robustness and resilience of cloud infrastructures. The project will deliver a set of tools and processes that will enable a) edge computing providers to enhance the stability and performance effectiveness of their edge infrastructures, through modelling the overheads and optimal groupings of concurrently running services, runtime analysis and adaptation, thus gaining a competitive advantage b) edge computing adopters to understand the computational nature of their applications, investigate abstracted and understandable QoS metrics, facilitate trust and smart contracting over their infrastructures and identify how they can balance their cost and performance to optimize their competitiveness and monitor their SLAs. By providing this toolset, the project will allow also third parties to act as independent validators of QoS features in IoT applications, enabling new decentralized applications and business models, thus filling a large gap in the emerging edge/IoT computing market landscape. PLEDGER selected ETSI OSM as the NFV orchestrator for service creation and instantiation in scenarios with network slicing requirements. OSM instantiate NS on top of network slices previously provisioned by the PLEDGER platform. Follow us on Twitter at: @pledgerproject

Project Partners: o ATOS (ATOS CONSULTING CANARIAS SA UNIPERSONAL), INTRASOFT (NETCOMPANY-INTRASOFT SA), ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA SPA), FILL (FILL GESELLSCHAFT MBH), HOLOLIGHT (HOLO-INDUSTRIE 4.0 SOFTWARE GMBH), ICCS (EREVNITIKO PANEPISTIMIAKO INSTITOUTO SYSTIMATON EPIKOINONION KAI YPOLGISTON-EMP), INNOV-ACTS (INNOV-ACTS LIMITED), i2CAT Foundation (FUNDACIO PRIVADA I2CAT, INTERNET I INNOVACIO DIGITAL A CATALUNYA), IMI (INSTITUT MUNICIPAL D'INFORMATICA DE BARCELONA)

SaT5G

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SaT5G is a 5GPPP Phase2 project. SaT5G aims to foster the development of attractive “plug and play” SatCom solution for 5G, for telcos and network vendors to accelerate 5G deployment and at the same time creating new and growing market opportunities for SatCom vendors. This requires addressing three major challenges: Exploit or mitigate SatCom capabilities (e.g. broadcast) or constraints (e.g. latency) in stand-alone or multi-link network topologies, Design SatCom solutions implementing 5G features (through virtualisation and/or adoptions of radio protocols), Ensure seamless integration of SatCom in 5G at network management and security levels. SaT5G uses ETSI OSM for the following cases: Specify and implement VNFDs and NSDs adapting SatCom components. Standards based creation of satellite VNFs and SDN in tandem with their terrestrial equivalents to create end-to-end network slices. Northbound interface for the integrated network management and orchestration to enable interworking with BSS/OSS.

Project Partners: Airbus, Avanti, BT, BroadPeak, Gilat, i2CAT, iDirect, imec, oneAccess, Quortus, SES, ThalesAlenia Space, TNO, University of Oulu, University of Surrey, Zodiac Aeropspace

SHIELD

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H2020 SHIELD proposes a universal solution for dynamically establishing and deploying virtual security infrastructures into ISP and corporate networks. The project builds on the deployment of virtualised security appliances (the virtual Network Security Functions or vNSFs). SHIELD uses ETSI OSM for the following tasks: support of the NS Manager (initiation, configuration, monitoring, scaling and termination). support of the vNSF Manager (initiation, configuration, monitoring, scaling and termination). creating vNSF descriptor and vNSF store allowing new vNSF to be stored and deployed by means of APIs. building an API on top of OSM to communicate to the business layer. building a vNSF Orchestrator (vNSFO) based on OSM that allows to deploy vNSFs in a network and control their execution.

Project Partners: Space Hellas S.A, Fundació i2CAT, Agenzia per l'Italia Digitale (AGID), Hewlett-Packard Limited (Labs), Incites Consulting SARL, Infili Technologies, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Orion Innovations, Politecnico di Torino, Talaia Networks, Telefónica I+D, Ubiwhere

SliceNet

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SliceNet defines a vertical-oriented, Quality of Experience (QoE)-driven network slicing framework that focuses on cognitive network management and control of end-to-end network slicing operation and slice-based (and slice-enabled) services in 5G networks. SliceNet provides efficient orchestration, management and control of 5G network slices for delivering a wide plethora of services customized for heterogeneous vertical businesses with diverging requirements for Quality of Service (QoS), QoE and Service Level Agreement (SLA). As a further challenge, SliceNet also tackle network slicing in multi-domain and cross-provider environments, therefore requiring additional and dedicated composition logics (at orchestration, management and control levels) for slice providers to offer and deliver to verticals end-to-end slices while abstracting the details of different providers involved. SliceNet uses ETSI OSM as part of the Service and Slice orchestration framework for combined coordination of end-to-end network slices and NFV Network Services provisioning and operation in support of the SmartCity, SmartGrid and eHealth vertical use cases.

Project Partners: Eurescom, University of West Scotland, Altice Labs, Nextworks, Ericsson Italy, IBM Israel, Eurecom, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, RedZinc, OTE, Orange Romania, Orange France, EFACEC, Dell EMC, Creative Systems Engineering, Cork Institute of Technology

Sonata

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SONATA is an EU-funded project Horizon 2020 and part of the 5G-PPP initiative on Agile Service Development and Orchestration in 5G Virtualized Networks" which targets both the flexible programmability of software networks and the optimization of their deployments. SONATA contributed a VIM emulator (vim-emu) to ETSI OSM Rel THREE. The vim-emu, now part of OSM DevOps, allows network service developers to locally prototype and test their network services in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the developer's machine. The emulation platform offers OpenStack-like APIs for each emulated PoP so that it can be easily integrated with MANO stacks.

Project Partners: Atos, NEC, Altice Labs, Thales, Telefonica, Nokia, University of Paderborn, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", University College London, iMinds, Optare Solutions, i2CAT, Synelixis, BT, Ubiwhere

SPIDER

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SPIDER is a next-generation cyber range platform to deploy virtualized services to provide 5G network realistic hacking scenarios where ethical hackers can leverage their skills in security. SPIDER emulates real 5G deployments where all 5G-integral components are present. Such an environment can be parameterized and spawned on-demand by materializing a specific slice configuration. 5G-related Cyber range in SPIDER integrates ETSI OSM framework to orchestrate scenarios deployments for different cybersecurity training and testing exercises. It supports the deployment and automation, in NFV environments, including 5G Core and services. It leverages OSM NBI-API to coordinate the deployment of virtualized network functions for the different exercises in pilots. Follow us at @spiderh2020_eu

Project Partners: ERICSSON, Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario Per Le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Telefónica I+D, THALES, ATOS, UBITECH, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Bruno Kessler Institute, 8BELLS, FORTH Greece, University of Piraeus Research Center, Serious Games Interactive, CITY University, CYBERLENS, INFALIA, INFOCOM, SPHYNX, K3Y, UNISYSTEMS

SUPERFLUIDITY

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In Physics, superfluidity is a state in which matter behaves like a fluid with zero viscosity. The SUPERFLUIDITY project was a 5GPPP Phase 1 research project aimed at achieving superfluidity in networks: the ability to instantiate services on-the-fly, run them anywhere in the network (core, aggregation, edge) and shift them transparently to different locations. The project demonstrated a converged cloud-based 5G concept addressing three forms of heterogeneity: heterogeneous traffic and sources; heterogeneous services and needs; and heterogeneous access technologies, with multi-vendor network components. SUPERFLUIDITY contributed a new GUI to ETSI OSM Rel FOUR leveraging the new NBI based on ETSI NFV SOL005.

Project Partners: Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT), Nokia Bell Labs France, Alcatel Lucent Israel, British Telecom, Citrix, EBlink, Intel Research & Development Ireland Ltd, NEC Europe, OnApp, Altice Labs, Red Hat, Telcaria, Telefonica I+D, Unified Streaming, University Ben Gurion, University of Liège, University of Technology Dresden, University Politehnica of Bucharest.

TeraFlow

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TeraFlow will create a new type of secure cloud-native SDN controller that will radically advance the state-of-the-art in beyond 5G networks. This new SDN controller shall be able to integrate with the current NFV and MEC frameworks as well as to provide revolutionary features for both flow management (service layer) and optical/microwave network equipment integration (infrastructure layer), while incorporating security using Machine Learning (ML) and forensic evidence for multi-tenancy based on Distributed Ledgers. Integration with ETSI OSM will be provided with the development of a novel RO WIM plugin with the necessary OSM extensions. The plugin will use a previously defined transport network slice northbound API, which includes isolation techniques, as well as other SLA definitions for transport network. Follow us at @TeraFlow_h2020

Project Partners: Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Telefonica I+D, Infinera, SIAE, NEC, ATOS, Telenor, Chalmers University, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), VOLTA Networks, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ubitech, Stritzinger, Old Dog Consulting.

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