Deliverable D4.1: Initial report on evaluation frameworks and tools

The major scope of the ORIGAMI project is to remove a set of well-defined technological and functional barriers to facilitate the way towards the 6G era of telecommunication. In this view, three critical architectural innovations foreseen: Global Service-based Architecture (GSBA), Zero-Trust Exposure Layer (ZTL), and Compute Continuum Layer (CCL). Given those innovations, specific use cases have been defined, and they are being addressed by Network Intelligence (NI) solutions.

A critical step for the project’s success is the exploitation of end-to-end and large-scale evaluation frameworks to assess the proposed innovations and provide measurements / values for the project focused Key Performance Indicators (KPI). In addition, beyond the functional validations and tests that are tailored to each one of the NI solutions, non-functional requirements shall be validated in end-to-end and large-scale evaluation frameworks.

For the use cases defined in the project so far, eight 8 evaluation frameworks have been defined, including platforms for the Radio Access Network (RAN) and the network core, as well as datasets from large scale experimentation infrastructures and commercial networks. The key characteristics and the capacity of those frameworks are presented in detail. Preliminary results are also depicted per use case.