Mobile Transport and Computing Platform for 5G Verticals: Resource Abstraction and Implementation
Nicola Sambo, Luca Valcarenghi, Paola Iovanna, G. Imbarlina, Fabio Ubaldi, Teresa Pepe, Andrés García‐Saavedra, Giada Landi, Iñaki Pascual, Ricardo Martínez, Josep Mangues‐Bafalluy, Christian Vitale, Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Adlen Ksentini, Frederic Klamm, Charles Turyagyenda · 2018
The 5G-TRANSFORMER project aims at transforming today's mobile transport networks into an SDN/NFV-based platform, which offers slices tailored to the needs of vertical industries. The paper describes the 5G-TRANSFORMER resource management layer, namely MTP, and its main functionalities such as resource abstraction, resource information modeling and orchestration, and service instantiation. Then, it focuses on the ETSI-based interfaces exploited for the interaction between the control and management plane elements. Finally, the paper reports an MTP implementation including messages reporting resource abstraction.