A Cloud-Native Platform for 5G Experimentation
Álvaro Vázquez-Rodríguez, Carlos Giraldo-Rodríguez, David Chaves-Diéguez · 2022
Nowadays, with the natural evolution towards cloud-native technologies due to the needs of current 5G and future mobile network deployments, there is a need for plat-forms that bring together the necessary features to facilitate development and research in this field. It is necessary to have these infrastructures for the operation of interconnected services, automating the network service lifecycle, supporting real time restrictions and the coexistence of physical and virtual functions. Concretely, the presented platform will be used to experiment with 5G cloud-native network services in a flexible, agile and lightweight way. This paper presents a 5G cloud-native platform using open source components, fully functional and valid for experimental or proof-of-concept deployments.