Implementations and integrations towards EVOLVED-5G framework realisation (intermediate)

EVOLVED-5G responds to the 5G PPP ICT-41-2020 5G innovations for verticals with third party services call [1], whose main goal is to deliver enhanced experimentation facilities on top of which third party experimenters (e.g., SMEs or any service provider and target vertical users) will have the opportunity to develop and test their applications.
The EVOLVED-5G project realises this vision by encouraging the creation of a NetApp ecosystem revolving around a 5G facility which will provide the tools and processes for the development, verification, validation and certification of NetApps as well as mechanisms for market releasing.

This document provides an overview of the current implementations and early prototypes of various parts of the EVOLVED-5G experimentation facility. More precisely, the deliverable describes the result of work conducted by the third Work Package (WP) of the project, WP3-Overall framework development and integration activities, and, in concrete, in Tasks T3.1-Production of the workspace and the related verification tools, T3.2-Development of NetApps validation tools and open repository, and T3.3-Overall framework integration and 5G infrastructure evolution. Indeed, the main goal of this WP is to implement all the core components of the reference architecture defined by WP2-Realisation process, requirements, and reference architecture design, related to the design of the environments and components of the EVOLVED-5G facility that will enable the development of NetApps and their lifecycle management.

The main contribution of this deliverable is to provide a detailed description of components from the EVOLVED-5G facility that enable the NetApp development, verification and validation processes. The spearhead for those processes is the EVOLVED-5G Workspace environment that provides the necessary tools for developers to ignite the development of NetApps, and hence set in motion verification and validation phases over which functional and non-functional testing activities take place. In more detail, this deliverable includes:

• The State of the Art of a variety of tools related to the different environments being implemented in the EVOLVED-5G facility, such as Software Development Kits (SDK), verification and validation tools, and potential open-source options for code and artifact repositories.
• An overview of the foreseen EVOLVED-5G facility, including the overall architecture and the environments implemented to support the NetApps lifecycle. For the deliverable’s completeness, a brief recall from previous deliverables, regarding the NetApp conceptualization and implementation principles, is also provided.
• A detailed description of the Workspace and Validation environments along with the open repository, including security measures as well as their current implementation details.
• The evolutions conducted towards the 5G infrastructure of EVOLVED-5G facility, to enable the new required functionalities of the NetApp ecosystem.

The work presented in this deliverable will guide the project towards later implementation stages of the EVOLVED-5G facility, since it provides an initial implementation design and realization methodology that includes all the phases that any NetApp must undergo until it reaches the EVOLVED-5G Certification environment. Information will be expanded and updated in future outcoming WP3 deliverables, and especially in D3.2-NetApp Certification Tools and Marketplace development (to be delivered at M18), which will cover the phases of NetApp certification and release to the EVOLVED-5G Marketplace.