Abstract
As the 5G ecosystem continues its consolidation, the testing and validation of the innovations achieved by integrators and verticals service providers is of preponderant importance. In this line, 5GASP is a European H2020-funded project that aims at easing the idea-to-market process through the creation of an European testbed that is fully automated and self-service, in order to foster rapid development and testing of new and innovative 5G Network Applications (NetApps). The main objective of this paper is to present the 5GASP's unified methodology to design, develop and onboard NetApps within the scope of different vertical services, letting them use specific 5G facilities. Besides, we examine the whole 5GASP process in a tutorial fashion by adopting a specific use case focusing on the integration of a virtual On-Board Unit (vOBU) service that permits offloading processing from the attached vehicle and serving data-access requests. As demonstrated, the presented workflow permits the agile, rigorous, and safe development, testing and certification of NetApps, which will enable valuable in-network services for 5G and beyond infrastructures.
Highlights
5G physical infrastructures are reaching a notable level of maturity
The principal aim of this paper is to present the initial proposal of the unified methodology approach to design, develop, and onboard Network Applications (NetApps) within the scope of the 5GASP project [4]
Thereafter, in order to provide a general vision of the steps that a developer or an experimenter should take to prepare and onboard a designed NetApp, we introduce the design, development, testing, and validation methodology that will be followed in the 5GASP platform
Summary
The principal goal of the 5GASP project is the implementation of an open platform to automate the development, validation, and certification of innovative 5G and beyond NetApps. For this to be done, a number of specific objectives have been defined. While SDN and VNF technologies will provide high network programmability and flexibility, the adoption of a MEC-based infrastructure permits to bring computing resources close to end-users [2] These technologies will be implemented using open-source solutions in each one of the test sites, each one with its own capabilities, and they will be available, in a transparent way, through the 5GASP portal.
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