5G-MoNArch Project

The expected diversity of services and use cases in 5G requires a flexible, adaptable, and programmable architecture. While the design of such an architecture has been addressed by 5G-PPP Phase 1 projects at a conceptual level (for example, 5G-NORMA and METIS II), it must be brought into practice in Phase 2. To this end, 5G-MoNArch will evolve 5G-PPP Phase 1 concepts to a fully-fledged archite

The focus of the 5G-MoNArch project is about a flexible, adaptable, and programmable architecture for 5G. Inter-slice control and cross-domain management, experiment-driven modelling and optimization, native cloud-enabled protocol stack are innovative enablers for the sliced network. The concepts and enablers are brought into practice through prototype implementations, deploying the devised architecture in two testbeds (the sea port in Hamburg and the touristic city in Turin) instantiating slices that include the functional innovations of network resilience and resource elasticity, respectively.