5G exchange for inter-domain resource sharing

Market segmentation and technological heterogeneity are major obstacles along the way towards the realization of fast service creation expected to be part the fifth generation network feature set. In this paper we present our vision of creating a 5G Exchange that remove these obstacles by enabling the orchestration of networking and service resources in an automated way across technological and administrative domains, We describe the challenges and our motivation, the proposed networking architecture framework, showing and its relation to current standardization efforts. We present the next steps in terms of implementation and experimentation, and propose a sandbox environment where partners may experiment with life-size multidomain network orchestration.