5G Case Study

Mohammad Fazel Salimi

Fazel.salimi@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/mohammad-fazel-salimi1988
ToC

1. The path to the CNF & Virtualization

2. The path to the Final 5G implementation
3. Network Slicing
4. MEC
prerequisite
The path to the CNF & Virtualization
Telecom Implementtaion’s History

Ref: Apis “Cloud, NFV and SDN” document

VM(NFV) v.s Container
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5G over Container

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Container
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5G Radio Container
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5G in Cloud Native

AMF SMF

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Pod (MM
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Container
JVMPod (MM Other SMF pods
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JVM
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Pod (HTTP Proxy) Pod
Pod (AMF)
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Pod (NGAP Proxy) Service B Container Container
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JVM Service C Service A
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Pod (SM Service) Pod (HTTPP Proxy)

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Service Mesh (Istio)

Pod Pod
Container Container
JVM JVM
Service NGAP Proxy Service HTTP Proxy

The sidecar (Envoy) intercepts all network traffic

Sidecar Container Sidecar Container

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Data Pod Pod Pod

Plane Container Container Container
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HTTP1.1, HTTP2, Service A HTTP1.1, HTTP2, Service B HTTP1.1, HTTP2, Service C

gRPC, TCP w/TLS gRPC, TCP w/TLS gRPC, TCP w/TLS

Envoy Sidecar Envoy Sidecar Envoy Sidecar

Control Mixer
Plane Galley Pilot (telemetry, policy)
Citadel

API, config mTLS, SPIFFE

 Service Mesh Ecosystem

Ref: Red Hat OpenShift Meetup - Tokyo, October 2019, Maria Bracho.
3GPP Rel16: Service Communication Proxy
End to End Cloud Native Network

Ref: Cisco “Reimagining the End-to-End Mobile Network in the 5G Era”

The path to the Final 5G implementation
Overview of SA and NSA Options

Ref: GSMA “Road to 5G Introduction”

Actual Path

Ref: Cisco “Mapping Success, Evolving to software-defined mobile networks”

Network Slicing
ITU IMT 2020 Use cases/Requirement
Peak data Rate, User experienced data rate. Area traffic capacity, user plane
latency, control plane latency, Mobility, Mobility interruption time

Connection
Density User plane latency, Control plane latency, Reliability,
Mobility interruption time
Minimum Technical Performance Requirement (1/2)

Ref: S01-1_Requirements for IMT-2020_Rev

Minimum Technical Performance Requirement (2/2)

Ref: S01-1_Requirements for IMT-2020_Rev

Network Slicing for eMBB

• UEs in Vehicles! • Coverage everywhere -Microcells • High capacity in UPFs and transport NW
• Smartphones etc • High capacity –Small cells • Use of multiple Session Anchors (UPFs)
• 100 000’s UEs per km2 • Carrier Aggregation, Dual Connectivity • Use of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC )
• 1000’s Gb/s per km2 • Massive MIMO, Beamforming
• High peak rates • Tight interworking with E-UTRA
• Normal mobility • Use of unlicensed spectrum
-except FWA • Aggregation with WiFi

Ref: Apis “Core Architecture” Traning document

S-NSSAI: Single-Network Slice Selection Instance Identifier

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SST: Slice/service type SD: Slice differentiator

• It is MNO(owned by MNO) or MVNO subscriber?

eMBB • In case of MNO, It is B2C or B2B segment?
URLLC • It is local subscriber or outbound roamer?
• For B2C (or oven B2B), what is the subscriber type? Gold? Silver?
mMTC
Normal?
V2X • Which kind of services/use cases we are going to provide?
• Some B2B customers need more than 1 DNN? What should be
strategy?
 To provide same slice for all of DNNs of this customer?
 To provide different slice for each DNN of this customer
 To provide different slices for different service of this customer
instead of taking care about DNNs. Because 1 DNN an have multiple
use case with different QOS attributes.
Common and Specific NF(Network Functions) for each Slice

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MEC (Multi access Edge Computing)
MEC
MEC Deployments
Thank You