ENHANCEMENTS AND INNOVATIONS. The planned integration activities during the lifetime of the project, involve several improvements aiming at the enhancement of the platform. These enhancements including the expansion of the existing functionalities and upgrading or replacing components supporting state-of-the-art technologies. The following enhancements are anticipated.
ENHANCEMENTS AND INNOVATIONS. In the framework of the enhancements planned for Berlin’s platform in the upcoming months, the following technology aspects and components are targeted.
ENHANCEMENTS AND INNOVATIONS. OULU platform will include SLICE-SC to facilitate full control over the parameters of an experiment and enable the repeatable experiments regardless of the physical infrastructures, i.e., different sites within the Consortium, and conduct valid experimental results, which are easy to cross-reference and replicate. SLICE-SC provides Transnational Access (TA) to its available infrastructures, which means free of charge, transnational access to research infrastructures for selected user groups. The access includes the logistical, technological, and scientific support and the specific training that is usually provided to external researchers using the infrastructure. TA can be Physical Access and Remote Access. OULU will facilitate the open call through the TA enabled by the SLICE-SC.
ENHANCEMENTS AND INNOVATIONS. NTN. On top of the terrestrial dedicated dark fiber link between the two sites in Athens platform, a satellite/NTN-emulator is currently under deployment, which will enable multi-operator and multi-access scenarios, such as inter-PLMN hybrid-access and dual-connectivity, with agility and low cost. ATSSS (Access Traffic Steering, Switching, and Splitting) enables efficient use of multiple RATs in a multi-connectivity scenario. The emulated satellite opens this field for further research into custom solutions where different PDU sessions per access can run in parallel. Specifically, the solution supported by Athens platform involves the use of MPTCP to combine multiple network paths (i.e., the terrestrial and the emulated satellite/NTN) in a single TCP connection. The satellite emulated based approach of the Athens testbed can emulate a complete DVB-RCS2 – DVB-S2 system in a realistic and flexible way and its ability to interconnect with real equipment and applications provides excellent experimentation means. It is a distributed platform, which is composed of a satellite network on the operator side and Satellite Terminals (STs) at the client side. The satellite operator part is composed of a backbone network between satellite Gateways (GWs), capable of being interconnected to external networks, providing satellite network access on each terminal and gateway. The offered emulation platform allows the experimenter to emulate mesh and star configuration schemes as well as multi-spot and multi-gateway topologies. It provides configuration and monitoring (real time and offline) tools to evaluate the performance of the emulated scenarios, supporting IPv4, IPv6 and Ethernet connectivity.
