Kata and arm, a secure alternative in the 5 g space

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1 © 2021 Arm Limited
Kata and Arm
A secure alternative
in the 5G space
Kiel Friedt
Principal Solutions Engineer, Arm
Septe...

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Agenda
•5G Technology and Initiatives
– 5G Acronyms, O-RAN
– Arm in 5G
– RICs and performance require...

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5G Technology
and Initiatives

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Acronyms
• RAN: Radio Access Network
• RIC: RAN Intelligent Controller
• Near RT (RealTime) RIC: a lo...

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A little history
• In 2G and 3G, the mobile architectures used a controller that was responsible for ...

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Arm in 5G

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Where does arm fit into 5G?
https://gsacom.com/paper/lte-to-5g-june-2021-global-update
Launched 5G ne...

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Arm: Enabling More Open 5G Platforms
Deployable
Technology
Innovations
Enabling
Software
Accelerator
...

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5G O-RAN Partner PoC Solutions
5G Core
CU
RAN Intelligence
Controller near-RT
DU
RU
RIC
5G Core
CU
Di...

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5G Solutions and Ecosystem
Compute/MEC EPC, RIC CU/DU uCPE
Small-cell
Use-cases, PoCs
Partner HW
Par...

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Four components of the RIC architecture
• Four functional software elements:
• Orchestration/NMS lay...

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RICs and
Performance
Requirements

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O-RAN architecture Non Real-Time RIC >=1 Sec
Functionality includes configuration
management, device...

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Performance needs
• Looking at the latency
numbers in the figure, the
Near Real-time RIC acts
within...

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What can the near real-time RIC do for you!
• Near real-time RIC leverages embedded intelligence
and...

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Security
Concerns

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Security concerns
• xApps have the ability to control RAN infrastructure (eNB, gNB, CU, DU)
• 3rd
pa...

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Experience Using
Cloud Native
Technology

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Deploying RICs
with Kata
containers

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kata-containers
Multi
Hypervisor
QEMU,
Cloud Hypervisor,
Firecracker
Works seamlessly
with Kubernete...

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Katas Growing Community
https://kata-containers.io

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Docker containers
Traditional containers use Linux control groups (cgroups),
for managing and alloca...

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Kata containers
• Kata Containers provides container
isolation by using hardware virtualization.
• I...

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Orchestration
and Lifecycle

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Deployment currently
Source: kata-containers.io
• Currently the near RT RIC is
deployed with Helm an...

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Multi-tenant Kubernetes example
KERNEL
CONTAINER
POD
CONTAINER
CONTAINER
CONTAINER
KERNEL
CONTAINER
...

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Deployment with kata example

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Kata orchestration and lifecycle
• The process to use kata is easy
• Install or compile version 2 of...

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Conclusion and
Q&A

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Conclusion
• 5G is quickly taking hold and arm is going to be part of it.
• Security concerns seen a...

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See you at KubeCon and Arm DevSummit 2021!
devsummit.arm.com
events.linuxfoundation.org/kubecon-
clo...

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