5G-CORNET: Platform as a Service

TL;DR

This paper presents 5G-CORNET, a cloud-based platform providing flexible hardware, networking, and computing resources for testing 5G wireless standards through virtualized, customizable experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a Cloud Infrastructure as a Service platform enabling researchers to conduct isolated, concurrent 5G experiments with customizable hardware and software configurations.

Findings

Provides a flexible, virtualized testbed for 5G research

Enables concurrent experiments with resource isolation

Supports development and testing of 5G standards

Abstract

Practical testing of the latest wireless communications standards requires the availability of flexible radio frequency hardware, networking and computing resources. We are providing a Cloud-based infrastructure which offers the necessary resources to carry out tests of the latest 5G standards. The testbed provides a Cloud-based Infrastructure as a Service. The research community can access hardware and software resources through a virtual plat-form that enables isolation and customization of experiments. In other words, researchers have control over the preferred experimental architecture and can run concurrent experiments on the same testbed. This paper introduces the resources that can be used to develop 5G testbeds and experiments.