Control Plane Data Characterisation for an 5G NFV Environment

Cristoffer Leite, University of Brasilia - "Control Plane Data Characterisation for an 5G NFV Environment"

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Control Plane Data Characterisation
for a 5G NFV Environment
Cristoffer Leite
University of Brasília

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Use Cases: Expand 5G on Remote Areas

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• ETSI NFV Model
• Used by 5G-PPP Projects
o 5Gcar, NRG-5, 5G 5G-
MoNArch, etc
• Open Source MANO
o Orchestrator
• OpenStack
o VIM
• Raspberry Pi 3B/3B+/Zero
Network Function Virtualisation

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Interfaces Requirements
Objective:
 Deploy long range (10-15 km) and low energy consumption virtual infrastructure control communication for power constrained devices
VIM Communication (Control)
VNF Communication
In-band

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Control Plane Data Characterisation
• Principal Factors:
o Long distances
o Small control messages
o Power Efficiency
Mini-ITX
RPi
~~
Approach:
 Use of emerging Low-Power Wide Area technologies such as LoRa

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Preliminary Experimentation: Results
Throughput(Bits/s)Throughput(Bits/s)
Sent Data
Received
Data
Controller to Compute
Compute to Controller
DNS service
VNF
Router/AP
VNF
Router/AP
VNF
RPi RPi
NFVI
VPN server
Mini-ITX
Physical link
Virtual link
5GC
VNF
RPi
Router/AP
VNF SIP Core
VNF
NAT
5GRange GW
VNF
VPN
Scenario: VNF Creation

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Preliminary Experimentation: Results
Throughput(Bits/s)
Total Throughput
- Peak: 3.99 kbps
- Median: 0,35 kbps
- Peak Median
• Min: 1.36 kbps
• Max: 1.64 kbps
- 5378 requests on 20 min
- 4.5 requests per second
First Impression
- Low Data Rates
- High number of requests
- Periodic peaks

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• Define Better Samples
o VNF shutdown
o Keep-alive messages
• Run Reliability Tests
• Run Throughput Comparison Tests
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