D2.3: Initial planning of tests and experimentation
Creators: name: 5Genesis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This document is the third technical deliverable of the 5GENESIS project, and contains work conducted in the WP2 of the project, complementing the content of deliverables D2.1 and D2.2. Its major objective is to describe a common end-to-end testing and experimentation methodology that will be used to assess the targeted 5G Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) over the 5GENESIS platforms and define the schedule for the integration of this experimentation methodology in each one of the platforms. In that sense, this document serves as a reference point for WP3 activities, where the key components of this experimentation methodology will be implemented, and for WP6 activities, where the targeted 5G KPIs will be evaluated. More precisely, the 5GENESIS experimentation methodology, introduced in this report, is expected to ensure the validity of the results, the repeatability of the experiments and the possibility of comparing the results between platforms. The lessons that will be learned from the implementation and testing to be conducted based on this methodology, will contribute to the appropriate refinement of the document and the release of the final experimentation methodology of the project (D2.4) that will drive the last evaluation cycle of the project. In parallel, the current document will be used as the 5GENESIS initial input to the 5G PPP Test, Measurements, and KPIs Validation Working Group (TMV WG). To accomplish the goal of this document, the content has been organized as follows. The introduction clarifies key concepts of the 5GENESIS objectives and architecture to facilitate the understanding of the approach followed for the definition of the experimentation methodology. Section 2 serves as reference section to assist the reader to familiarize with the terms associated with the 5GENESIS experimentation methodology and describes the experimentation workflows, regarding the 5GENESIS reference architecture. Section 3 specifies the 5GENESIS initial choices for the information that need to flow in the platform (Portal inputs, Experiment descriptor, Test case template) in order to set-up an experiment. Section 4 describes the main frameworks that are selected as the basis for the implementation of the experimentation methodology in 5GENESIS. Finally, Section 5 provides the initial planning for the realization of the experimentation methodology in the platforms that define the 5GENESIS facility. This deliverable provides the initial specifications of the following key concepts in the 5GENESIS experimentation methodology: • the experimentation scenarios, which details the end-to-end conditions for running the experiments, such as the mobility and the location of the User Equipment (UE). • the experiment descriptor, which contains all the information required by the platforms to run the experiments. • Slice configurations, which detail the end-to-end resources allocated for the execution of the experiments. • the test cases, which define target of the experiment, the procedure and the measurements that have to be collected in order to validate the targeted KPIs.