A demonstration of our research on managing 4G/5G testbeds, part of the 4G/5G research at SimulaMet, is going to be presented in the Demonstrations session at the IEEE LCN 2022 on Wednesday, September 28:
A Live Demonstration of In-Band Telemetry in OSM-Orchestrated Core Networks
Authors: Thomas Dreibholz (Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, Norway); Mah-Rukh Fida (University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom); Azza Hassan Mohamed Ahmed (Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, Norway); Andrés Ocampo (Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, Norway); Foivos Ioannis Michelinakis (Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering, Norway)
Abstract: Network Function Virtualization is a key enabler to building future mobile networks in a flexible and cost-efficient way. Such a network is expected to manage and maintain itself with least human intervention. With early deployments of the fifth generation of mobile technologies – 5G – around the world, setting up 4G/5G experimental infrastructures is necessary to optimally design Self-Organising Networks (SON). In this demo, we present a custom small-scale 4G/5G testbed. As a step towards self-healing, the testbed integrates four Programming Protocol-independent Packet Processors (P4) virtual switches, that are placed along interfaces between different components of transport and core network. This demo not only shows the administration and monitoring of the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) VNF components, using Open Source MANO, but also as a proof of concept for the potential of P4-based telemetry in detecting anomalous behaviour of the mobile network, such as a congestion in the transport part.
