1. Development , test, and
characterization of MEC platforms
V I O S O F T ®
Hieu Tran, Viosoft Corporation

2. Agenda Overview
• DevOps and Digital Infrastructure Projects
• Use-Cases
• Status
• DevOps
• Service Portability
• Service Chain Layers
• Access & Availability
• Characterization & Sizing
• ….
• Platforms
• Proto Innovation
• Summary

3. DRONAVA
End-to-end, digitally transformed 5G/IoT reference design
Hyper-connected test and integration sockets
BINPUB
Services repository and management
VALIDIUM
Test & characterization private cloud
Public cloud front-end
TERANIUM
Telco/Native cloud integrated development environment
Platform for standardization
eNodeB
S-GW
HSS
P-GW
vSBC
vIMS
MMENSB
Router
Firewall
DPI
SD-
WAN
DPDK
Examples
NEV SDK
Examples
INTEL NEV SDK
VPP
Examples

4. Why Virtualize Services ?
• Lower Cap / Op-Ex
• Deployment Agility
• Service Innovation
The Promise of VNF…
• Write Once, Deploy Everywhere
• ”App-store of the Cloud”
• No Vendor Lock-In
Reality Is Not a “Team Player”
• VM or Container? Host/Guest OS? HEAT or
TOSCA? Public or Private Cloud? Whose
Cloud? Is VNF A Compatible with B?
Do We Need DevOp Tools for The Telco Cloud?
“Operators don’t create new VNF every day!”

5. AIC, Azure, AWS, …
ONAP, OpenO,
OpenStack, Open Baton
CEPH, NFS, RAID
Redhat, Ubuntu, VmWare
OVS, AVS, SR-IOV,
Bridge
Algorithms
Service Chain
Compute (*)
Storage (*)
Networking (*)
Scales (horizontal & vertical)
Reliability (99.9999)
Service Portability
Abstracting Designs From Platforms
DeploymentDesigns
Platforms

6. Service Chaining
Connecting Two or More Networking Abstractions
Clouds
Services
Components
Libraries
• AWS, Azure, Google
Cloud
• AIC, Nokia, Juniper
• Container
• Virtual Machine
• Lambda Function
• Click Modular Router
• P4 Packet Forwarding
Framework
• DPDK
• VPP
• NEV SDK
PlatformsDesigns

7. Developing and Deploying
MEC Services
Teranium

8. AIC, Azure, AWS, …
ONAP, OpenO,
OpenStack, Open Baton
CEPH, NFS, RAID
Redhat, Ubuntu, VmWare
OVS, AVS, SR-IOV,
Bridge
Algorithms
Service Chain
Compute (*)
Storage (*)
Networking (*)
Scales (horizontal & vertical)
Reliability (99.9999)
Service Portability
Abstracting Designs From Platforms
DeploymentDesigns
Platforms

10. Reference Implementation of NEV services
• Utilizing Teranium Libraries and Components
Encapsulation of NEV services
• NES, NTS, and NIS as VNFs or microservices
• Facilitate multi-cloud deployment
Componentization of NES API
• Drag & drop environment for app development
• Applications as service chains
Possible Integration with Intel NEV
Access & Availability

11. Characterization and
Dimensioning for the Mobile
Edge, at Scale
Dronava

12. User Equipment Remote Radio Heads
Macro Cell
Small Cell
RRU
RRU
RRU
Microwave
Optical
Copper
Carrier
Ethernet
IP core
Switching
network
Front Haul Base Band 1st Stage Back
Haul
Back Haul Aggregation Core
Adopted from 3G4G Blog - http://blog.3g4g.co.uk/
RRU
RRU
CWDMCWDM
OADMOADM
CWDM
Optical Transport
Optical Transport
CPRI, OSAI/ORI
CPRI, OSAI/ORI
Multiplexer
MUX/DEMUX

13. Back Haul Aggregation CoreRemote Radio HeadsUser Equipment
DRONAVA
Web scale (1000+ UE
instantiation of user
equipment (UE) of
different functionalities
and capabilities
(phone, IoT, venue,
…)
RRU
RRU
RRU
Microwave
Optical
Copper
DRONAVA
Fully implemented virtual
functions performing key
foundational capabilities of EPC
and core network. Orchestrated
with latest MANO/orchestrator
used by operators and ODM
Front Haul Base Band 1st Stage Back
Haul
Adopted from 3G4G Blog - http://blog.3g4g.co.uk/
DRONAVA
Virtualized
instances of
radio head for
scale and
handover
development
and testing
MME
S-GW
HSS
P-GW
vSBC
vIMS
MME
E-UTRAN
Virtualized
EPC
Virtualized
IMS
Virtualized
DRONAVA
Virtualized eNodeB(s) + optional MEC node(s)
S1eNodeB MEC nodeS1
S1
eNodeB
MEC node

15. Back Haul Aggregation CoreRemote Radio HeadsUser Equipment
RRU
RRU
RRU
Microwave
Optical
Copper
DRONAVA
Front Haul Base Band 1st Stage Back
Haul
Adopted from 3G4G Blog - http://blog.3g4g.co.uk/
DRONAVA
MME
S-GW
HSS
P-GW
vSBC
vIMS
MME
E-UTRAN
Virtualized
EPC
Virtualized
IMS
Virtualized
DRONAVA
Virtualized eNodeB(s) + optional MEC node(s)
S1eNodeB
APJ
US
US

16. Back Haul Aggregation CoreRemote Radio HeadsUser Equipment
RRU
RRU
RRU
Microwave
Optical
Copper
DRONAVA
Front Haul Base Band 1st Stage Back
Haul
Adopted from 3G4G Blog - http://blog.3g4g.co.uk/
DRONAVA
MME
S-GW
HSS
P-GW
vSBC
vIMS
MME
E-UTRAN
Virtualized
EPC
Virtualized
IMS
Virtualized
DRONAVA
Virtualized eNodeB(s) + optional MEC node(s)
S1eNodeB
APJ
US
MEC nodeS1
APJ APJ

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50
100
150
200
250
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
Ping RTT
Run with MEC
Run without MEC
Packet size
ms
Ping Latency
With & Without MEC

18. 0
2
4
6
8
10
12
83 100 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518
Throughput(Gbps)
packet size (bytes)
Uplink Throughput
Tput using gtpu kernel Tput using vpp with gtpu bypass on docker
Tput using vpp without gtpu bypass on docker Tput using vpp with gtpu bypass on qemu
Tput using vpp without gtpu bypass on qemu
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
47 76 88 128 256 512 1024 1280 1518
Throughput(Gbps)
packet size (bytes)
Downlink Throughput
Tput using gtpu kernel Tput using vpp on docker Tput using vpp on qemu
https://wiki.fd.io/images/b/b6/VPP_K8S_GTPU_OSSNA.pdf

19. MEC Proto Service

20. • Population ~ 267,000
• Regular district
• 133.5 m2 / block
• ~ 5 small-cell / block
• ~ 1 macro-cell / 1.5 blocks
• Traffic flow
• UE -> small-cell -> macro-cell /
MEC node
• ~ 420 blocks in Eixample
• 2100 small cells & 630 macro cells
Deployment Sizing & Characterization
5G X-haul for Eixample
http://www.5g-xhaul-project.eu
Neal.oliver@intel.com

21. Democratizing Mobility
“Fidofon”
Centralized / Traditional Democratized / “Sharing Economy”
Hotels Airbnb (“rent your own home”)
Taxi Lyft / Uber (“bring your own car”)
Banks Lending Club (“lend to your peers”)
Fiat Crypto (”mint your own money”)
Telcos Fidofon (“provide your own rrh, enb, mec”)

22. ~ 320 bus stops

23. ~ 200 Wifi hotspots

24. ~ 300 Car Parks