Integrating Optical Transport Network Testbeds and Cloud Platforms to Enable End-to-End 5G and IoT Services

摘要

This paper provides an overview of different experimental SDN/NFV control and orchestration architectures aiming at integrating the multi-layer (packet/optical) transport networks and distributed DC infrastructures (core cloud, edge computing) of the ADRENALINE testbed. The proposed SDN/NFV solutions enable the development and testing of end-to-end 5G and IoT services supporting a wide variety of use cases from different vertical industries, such as automotive, e-health, energy, media or smart cities. To this end, the ADRENALINE testbed is adopting the following technologies to meet the stringent requirements of 5G and IoT; i) high-capacity, flexible and cost/energy-efficient software-defined optical transmission technologies for access, metro and core networks; ii) highly-scalable packet technologies for aggregation and switching of flows with quality of service (QoS); iii) core datacenters and edge computing for the deployment of virtualized network functions (VNFs) and cloud services.