D2.4: Final report on facility design and experimentation planning

The purpose of this deliverable is to present in one concise document the final 5GENESIS architecture and experimentation methodology. As such, it presents the work undertaken as part of WP2 “Facility Requirements and Specifications”, Tasks T2.1, T2.2 and T2.3. The content of this deliverable represents our final view on requirements, architecture and experimentation methodology, and therefore supersedes any architecture specification and experimentation methodology content presented in our previous WP2 deliverables (D2.2 [1] and D2.3 [3], respectively). The work performed in WP2 and included in this deliverable forms the basis for the implementations of the common architectural components in WP3, and for the deployments, testing and KPI validation work done in WPs 4, 5, and 6, while the inputs towards 5G-PPP groups are taken further by WP7. Through a continuous feedback loop between WP2 and the implementation, deployment and testing work packages (WP3, WP4, WP5 and WP6), our view on the architecture and methodology was enhanced. This process included: • enhancing the work done on requirements, • adding new components such as the Slice Optimisation Module, • specifying the east/west interface through detailing multi-platform experiment workflows, • update the 5GENESIS reference architecture, • refine the 5GENESIS experimentation methodology. The key target of the 5GENESIS Experimentation Platform is to support 5G experimentation and our architecture design was conducted from this perspective. While the design accommodates for a diverse set of capabilities in each of the underlying platforms of 5GENESIS, including technological advancements in spectrum management and multi-domain end-to-end orchestration, as well as interactions between different administration and experimentation domains, it is also based on one common slicing and experimentation model, allowing for an easy interface and experimentation procedure for all experimenters. Our developed experimentation methodology is now incorporated into the 5G-PPP TMV group’s recommendations. The design and development from this perspective facilitates the validation of 5G capabilities and of the various KPIs for different vertical services run on top of our 5GENESIS Experimentation Platform, while being aligned with relevant 5G standards. The deliverable is organised as follows: • Section 2 includes the refinements to requirements, incorporating the feedback from WP3, WP4 & WP5. • Section 3 presents all the components of the 5GENESIS architecture. It is structured by the three layers in our blueprint architecture (Coordination, Management & Orchestration, and Infrastructure), explaining the components of each layer, their functionality, and interactions between components and layers. This Section also explains which enhancements have been done over the architecture presented in D2.2 [2]. • Section 4 gives an overview of our experimentation methodology, including the improvements done since D2.3 [3]. • Section 5 details the east/west interface between platforms and explains how multiplatform experiments take place in 5GENESIS.