5G Open Source Components & Testbeds
Contents
5G Core functions
1. Service Infrastructure instantiation
2. Some Orchestration functions
3. Monitoring
4. Information Systems facilities
5G Service Support End-to-End functions
5. On-demand Slice and VIM creation
6. On-demand topology aggregation
7. Multi-domain aspects & facilities
8. Service Provider to Service Provider interaction
5G Cross aspect functions
9. Optimization systems
10. Programmability of systems
Testbed Support functions
11. Experimental control
12. Visualization
13. IoT soft environment
UCL Testbed
The 5G functions presented here are part of a full 5G Global Environment which is displayed in the following figure:
- Contribution to standards
The following is a list of standards that the work presented in these pages has contributed to:
ITU-T IMT2020 (5G) Recommendations
"ITU-T IMT2020 Gap Analysis (T13-SG13-151130-TD-PLEN-0208!!MSW-E) - accepted and released Jan 2016; in particular: "5G High Level Architecture" and "5G Network Softwarization - http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/imt-2020/Pages/default.aspx
"Framework of IMT-2020 (5G) network architecture (O-043)"; accepted and released Jan 2017- http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/imt-2020/Pages/default.aspx
"Network Management Framework for IMT-2020 (O-047)" - accepted and released Jan 2017- http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/imt-2020/Pages/default.aspx
IMT-2020 network management requirements (O-046); accepted and released Jan 2017; http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/imt-2020/Pages/default.aspx
"Application of network softwarization to IMT-2020 (O-041) —accepted and released Jan 2017; http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/imt-2020/Pages/default.aspxIETF Drafts
"Network Slicing - Revised Problem Statement", June 2017 - https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-galis-netslices-revised-probl...
"Network Slicing Architecture; June 2017; https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-geng-netslices-architecture-0...
"Network Slicing Use Cases: Network Customization and Differentiated Services"; June 20170 https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-netslices-usecases-00.txt
"Gap Analysis for Network Slicing"; June 2017- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-qiang-netslices-gap-analysis-00
"Autonomic Slicing" March 2017, https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-galis-anima-autonomic-slice-networking...
Relevant contribution and presentation on "Integration of Slice Networking in NFV" — IETF / IRTF NFVRG; March 2017,
Associated Projects
UCL has been involved in the following projects through which work has been undertaken and systems created leading to the information presented in these pages:
Authors

Professorial Research Associate
Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Roberts Building
University College London
WC1E 7JE

Research Associate
Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Roberts Building
University College London
WC1E 7JE

Senior Research Associate
Institute of Communications and Connected Systems
Roberts Building
University College London
WC1E 7JE