H2020 · 5G/6G & Telecoms
A holistic, innovative framework for the design, development and orchestration of 5G-ready applications and network services over sliced programmable infrastructure
Suite5 focused on the design and implementation of the deployment and runtime policy editor, as well as the delivery of the data fusion, real-time profiling and analytics toolkit, and the intelligent orchestration mechanisms, in general. Suite5 also led the MATILDA risk management activities.
The vision of MATILDA was to design and implement a holistic 5G end-to-end services operational framework tackling the lifecycle of design, development and orchestration of 5G-ready applications and 5G network services over programmable infrastructure, following a unified programmability model and a set of control abstractions.
It aimed to devise and realize a radical shift in the development of software for 5G-ready applications as well as virtual and physical network functions and network services, through the adoption of a unified programmability model, the definition of proper abstractions and the creation of an open development environment that could be used by application as well as network functions developers.
Intelligent and unified orchestration mechanisms were applied for the automated placement of the 5G-ready applications and the creation and maintenance of the required network slices. Deployment and runtime policies enforcement was provided through a set of optimisation mechanisms providing deployment plans based on high level objectives and a set of mechanisms supporting runtime adaptation of the application components and/or network functions based on policies defined on behalf of a services provider.
Multi-site management of the cloud/edge computing and IoT resources was supported by a multi-site virtualized infrastructure manager, while the lifecycle management of the supported Virtual Network Functions Forwarding Graphs (VNF-FGs) as well as a set of network management activities were provided by a multi-site NFV Orchestrator (NFVO). Network and application-oriented analytics and profiling mechanisms were supported based on realtime as well as a posteriori processing of the collected data from a set of monitoring streams. The developed 5G-ready application components, applications, virtual network functions and application-aware network services were made available for open-source or commercial purposes, re-use and extension through a 5G marketplace.
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