Published July 19, 2024 | Version v1
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Experimentation-as-a-Service for Validating 5G Use Cases in a Large-Scale 5G Platform

Description

5G commercialization relies on validating the vertical use cases and selecting the ones creating values for both mobile operators and vertical stakeholders. To transfer
the validations to commercialization more quickly, it is important to build a 5G platform not only with a similar scale and reliability as a commercial 5G but also capable
of offering advanced beyond 5G services. In this paper, we propose an Experiment-as-a-Service (EaaS) framework which systematically offers four types of testing services, integration, functional, performance, and security testing. Then the iCORA (innovative, cloud-native, open, robust and automated) platform is presented to demonstrate how the EaaS framework could be realized in a large-scale 5G experimentation platform, which offers both diversity and flexibility for testing and experiments. A media use case is used to exemplify how the EaaS tailors the iCORA network to support various demands of vertical use cases and meet their KPIs.

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Experimentation-as-a-Service_for_Validating_5G_Use_Cases_in_a_Large-Scale_5G_Platform.pdf

Additional details

Funding

European Commission
5GMediaHUB – 5G experimentation environment for 3rd party media services 101016714
European Commission
IMAGINE-B5G – Advanced 5G Open Platform for Large Scale Trials and Pilots across Europe (IMAGINE-B5G) 101096452
European Commission
FIDAL – Field Trials beyond 5G 101096146
European Commission
COMMECT – Bridging the digital divide and addressing the need of Rural Communities with Cost-effective and Environmental-Friendly Connectivity Solutions 101060881

Dates

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2024-07-19
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