The CTTC 5G End-to-End Experimental Platform: Integrating Heterogeneous Wireless/Optical Networks, Distributed Cloud, and IoT Devices


Por: Munoz, R, Mangues-Bafalluy, J, Vilalta, R, Verikoukis, C, Alonso-Zarate, J, Bartzoudis, N, Georgiadis, A, Payaro, M, Perez-Neira, A, Casellas, R, Martinez, R, Nunez-Martnez, J, Esteso, MR, Pubill, D, Font-Bach, O, Henarejos, P, Serra, J, Vazquez-Gallego, F

Publicada: 1 ene 2016
Categoría: Automotive engineering

Resumen:
The Internet of Things (IoT) will facilitate a wide variety of applications in different domains, such as smart cities, smart grids, industrial automation (Industry 4.0), smart driving, assistance of the elderly, and home automation. Billions of heterogeneous smart devices with different application requirements will be connected to the networks and will generate huge aggregated volumes of data that will be processed in distributed cloud infrastructures. On the other hand, there is also a general trend to deploy functions as software (SW) instances in cloud infrastructures [e.g., network function virtualization (NFV) or mobile edge computing (MEC)]. Thus, the next generation of mobile networks, the fifth-generation (5G), will need not only to develop new radio interfaces or waveforms to cope with the expected traffic growth but also to integrate heterogeneous networks from end to end (E2E) with distributed cloud resources to deliver E2E IoT and mobile services. This article presents the E2E 5G platform that is being developed by the Centre Tecnol?gic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), the first known platform capable of reproducing such an ambitious scenario. © 2016 IEEE.

Filiaciones:
Munoz, R:
 Opt Networks & Syst Dept, London, England

Mangues-Bafalluy, J:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Commun Networks Div, Barcelona, Spain

 UPC, Barcelona, Spain

Vilalta, R:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Opt Networks & Syst Dept, Barcelona, Spain

 Open Networking Fdn, Barcelona, Spain

Verikoukis, C:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Alonso-Zarate, J:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Commun Dept M2M, Barcelona, Spain

Bartzoudis, N:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, PHYCOM Dept, Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Essex, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England

 AEThER Project, Barcelona, Spain

Georgiadis, A:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 GCD USA, New York, NY USA

 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Dept Microwave Syst & Nanotechnol, Barcelona, Spain

 IEEE Council Radiofrequency Identificat, Barcelona, Spain

 Int Union Radio Sci Commiss, Barcelona, Spain

Payaro, M:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya Spain, Commun Technol Div, Barcelona, Spain

 5G PPP Project Flex5Gware, Barcelona, Spain

Perez-Neira, A:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 Univ Politecn Cataluna, Signal Theory & Commun Dept, Barcelona, Spain

 ETSETB Telecom Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Casellas, R:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 France Telecom, Res & Dev, Paris, France

 British Telecom Labs, Paris, France

 ENST, London, England

Martinez, R:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Commun Networks Div, Barcelona, Spain

Nunez-Martnez, J:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Mobile Networks Dept, Barcelona, Spain

 Adv Broadband Commun Ctr, Barcelona, Spain

Esteso, MR:
 AtosOrigin, Paris, France

 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Mobile Networks Dept, Expt Test Bed Res Mobile Networks, Barcelona, Spain

Pubill, D:
 Generalitat Catalunya, Ctr Telecomunicac Tecnol Informacio, Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Area Access Technol, Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Smart Energy Efficient Commun Technol Dept, Commun Technol Div, Barcelona, Spain

Font-Bach, O:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, PHYCOM Dept, Barcelona, Spain

Henarejos, P:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Engn Area, Barcelona, Spain

Serra, J:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

 Inst High Energy Phys, London, England

 Acom Grp, London, England

Vazquez-Gallego, F:
 Ctr Tecnol Telecomunicac Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
ISSN: 15566072
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