In this demo, we exhibit the negotiation based on the TM Forum framework (Customer Facing Service and Resource Facing Service) and the deployment of a fully virtualized end-to-end mobile network (including a RAN desegregated into Remote Unit, Distributed Unit and Centralized Unit) by using ONAP, an open-source network automation platform. The various components of mobile network are containerized and deployed by ONAP on top of Kubernetes. The demo is the first illustration of an end-to-end mobile network, which is fully virtualized up to the remote unit, whose architecture is compatible with the Open-RAN framework, and which implements a PHY layer on the basis of 3GPP 7.3 functional split in Open Air Interface code.
@article{arxiv.2011.02699,
title = {Cloud-RAN Factory: Instantiating virtualized mobile networks with ONAP},
author = {Veronica Quintuna Rodriguez and Romuald Corbel and Fabrice Guillemin and Alexandre Ferrieux},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.02699},
year = {2020}
}