D4.14 The Berlin Platform (Release B)
Creators: name: 5GENESIS
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The 5GENESIS Project builds up a 5G experimentation facility that comprises of five 5G plat-<br> forms and a portable demonstrator distributed across Europe. The goal of the Project is to<br> equip these 5G platforms to allow the validation of 5G Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). All<br> platforms are instances of a common reference architecture, which was defined in deliverable<br> D2.2 “Initial overall facility design and specifications”, in response to the project requirements,<br> identified in deliverable D2.1 “Requirements of the facility”. <br> This deliverable provides additional details (Release B) on the status of the specific instantiation<br> of the reference architecture being built in the 5GENESIS Berlin platform. The status represents<br> an update to that included in the first release of the Berlin Platform instantiation, captured in<br> deliverable D4.13 “The Berlin Platform Release A”. This document first presents the platform<br> instantiation at the end of Phase 2, and the expected instantiation by the end of the project<br> and then reports the current status (platform release B), resulted after the second integration<br> cycle of the project (December 2019). <br> The main objective of the Berlin Platform is to set up a multi-technology, multi-site end-to-end<br> (E2E) 5G environment for evaluation of eMBB and mMTC services in a city testbed in the con-<br> text of the yearly event “Festival of Lights”. The overall set up consists of the 5G Core from<br> Fraunhofer FOKUS (Open5GCore), Radio Access Technologies (RATs), among them 5G New Ra-<br> dio (NR) equipment, together with an enhanced millimeter wave (mmWave) transport solution,<br> edge computing capabilities and video-related equipment to provide connectivity to multiple<br> users in the center of Berlin (Humboldt University). <br> The Berlin Platform consists of three sites: the Fraunhofer FOKUS site, the IHP site and the<br> Humboldt University site. The sites are interconnected in pairs, from the main data center in<br> Fraunhofer FOKUS to the IHP site, and from the main data center in Fraunhofer FOKUS to the<br> edge data center at Humboldt University. The assessment of the Berlin Platform as a whole<br> requires parallel testing of the equipment in all those sites before the overall evaluation of the<br> complete deployment is carried out in Berlin in October 2020. This deliverable provides an overview of the status of the Berlin Platform in both infrastructure<br> and software and hardware network components that are being developed in WP3, leveraging<br> the interfaces for control and monitoring, the required automation processes for experimen-<br> tation, measurement and KPI computation, as well as to implement full control and security<br> aspects as described in the Coordination Layer, which was defined in deliverable D2.2. The Ber-<br> lin Platform will also support the common portal for interaction with experimenters and tools<br> for the appropriate operation of the Berlin Platform.<br> In specific, at the end of Phase 2, the following tasks have been achieved: Establishment of VPN for inter-site platform connectivity. Integration of the initial version of Slice manager into the Berlin platform. Initial integration of dispatcher and definition of experiment descriptors. Installation of the IHP 60 GHz mmWave solution at IHP premises and initial set of indoor and outdoor measurements. Initial Edge deployment at Humboldt University premises. Experimentation site preparation for Festival of Lights event in Berlin to showcase the initial use case demo at Humboldt University premises. Integration of Release A of Coordination layer functionalities, i.e. Portal. Experiment Lifecycle Manager (ELCM). InfluxDB. Grafana. OpenTap