The B5G Athens Experimentation Platform
Harilaos G. Koumaras, Dimitrios Fragkos, V. Pitsilis, George Makropoulos, George Lyberopoulos, Eleni Theodoropoulou, Foteini Setaki, Ioanna Mesogiti, D. Diakakis, Nikolaos Gkatzios, Constantinos Fragkos, Vaios Koumaras · 2024
The Beyond 5G (B5G) Athens platform, a state-of-the-art large scale facility for Standalone (SA) network experimentation, spanning in aera the NCSR Demokritos and COSMOTE/OTE Academy campuses in Athens. The two sites are interconnected at control and data plane level by utilizing a dedicated 10G dark fiber link. Two radio access networks are offered, each linked to separate 5G core implementations, allowing the study of inter-PLMN handovers and roaming scenarios, but also Multi-Operator Core Network (MOCN) configurations.