Rapporto tecnico, 2023, ENG

A software-based 5G infrastructure for the TRANTOR project

A. De Vita; A. Gebrehiwot; F. M. Lauria

IT-CNR, Pisa, Italy

This document serves as a comprehensive overview of the 5G research infrastructure developed for the TRANTOR project, a 3-year initiative nanced by the HORIZON EUROPE program that concentrates on the forward trajectory of 5G Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) evolution, heading towards 6G systems. The goal of the infrastructure is to facilitate and deeply investigate the Quality of Service (QoS) and traffic management in NTN associated with 5G systems and to develop new functionalities as foreseen by the TRANTOR project. The experimental network infrastructure is based on the open-source free5GC project, further complemented by a standalone implementation of a 5G RAN (Radio Access Network, also known as gNodeB) and multiple 5G UE (User Equipment) using UERANSIM, an open source state-of-the-art 5G UE and gNodeB simulator. Detailed overview and use cases of the deployed 5G infrastructure are also described.

Keywords

5G, free5GC, UERANSIM, Docker, QoS, Network management

CNR authors

Gebrehiwot Abraham, De Vita Andrea, Lauria Filippo Maria

CNR institutes

IIT – Istituto di informatica e telematica