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Bo ja Nogales1, I án Vidal1, Vic o Sánchez-Ague o1,2, F ancisco Vale a1, Luis F. Gonzalez1
1 Telema ic Enginee ing Depa men , Uni e sidad Ca los III de Mad id, A da. Uni e sidad, 30, 28911 Leganés
(Mad id), Spain.
2 IMDEA Ne wo ks Ins i u e. A da. del Ma Medi e áneo, 22, 28918 Mad id, Spain.
[email p o ec ed], [email p o ec ed], [email p o ec ed], ale a@i .uc3m.es, [email p o ec ed]
I. ABSTRACT
In his p esen a ion, we will i s desc ibe he design
and implemen a ion o an NFV sys em capable o
deploying mode a ely complex ne wo k se ices o e a
wi eless ad-hoc ne wo k o esou ce-cons ained compu e
nodes. The sys em design a ge s ae ial ne wo ks buil by
Unmanned Ae ial Vehicles (UAVs), and i elies on
con aine i ualiza ion o suppo he execu ion o
ne wo k unc ions wi hin cons ained en i onmen s, as
well as on mobile ad-hoc ne wo king o suppo he
unde lying end- o-end ne wo k communica ions [1]. The
p esen a ion will also co e he implemen a ion expe ience
om de eloping his NFV sys em, which is based on
ele an and widely-adop ed open-sou ce echnologies in
he NFV a ena such as ETSI Open-Sou ce MANO (OSM)
and OpenS ack.
In addi ion, we will p esen he de ails conce ning he
in eg a ion o his sys em in o a dis ibu ed NFV es bed
spanning h ee di e en emo e si es in Spain, i.e.,
Uni e sidad Ca los III de Mad id (UC3M), Uni e sidad
Poli écnica de Ca aluña (UPC), and Uni e sidad del País
Vasco (UPV-EHU). The goal o his es bed is o explo e
syne gies among NFV, UAVs, and 5G e ical se ices,
ollowing a p ac ical app oach p ima ily go e ned by
expe imen a ion. To showcase he po en ial o his es bed
o suppo e ical se ices, we will p esen h ee di e en
use cases ha ha e been ealized as pa o ou p io
esea ch wo k: i) he au oma ed deploymen o an IP
elephony se ice on a delimi ed geog aphic a ea, using a
ne wo k o in e connec ed UAVs [2] (no ewo hily, his
wo k was awa ded by ETSI as he bes p oo -o -concep
demons a ion wi h OSM du ing he OSM Release Eigh
cycle [3]); ii) he ealiza ion o a sma a ming e ical
se ice [4]; and iii) a public-sa e y e ical use case, which
uses ae ial and ehicula NFV in as uc u es o moni o
a ic condi ions and handle eme gency si ua ions [5].
This la e in ol es an in e na ional collabo a ion wi h he
Ins i u o de Telecomunicações o A ei o, which ope a es
a ehicula NFV in as uc u e.
Finally, he p esen a ion will ackle he s anda diza ion
challenges ela ed wi h he u u e iew o a decen alized
1
ETSI NFV E olu ion e en . All de ails included in:
h ps://www.e si.o g/e en s/1892-n e olu ion
and lexible MANO amewo k, capable o suppo ing he
ope a ion o cos -e ec i e, eliable se ices beyond he
edge o he elecommunica ion ope a o in as uc u es. In
his iew, mul iple s akeholde s would collabo a i ely
p o ide a wide ange o he e ogeneous compu e-connec
de ices (e.g., end-use e minals, CPEs, o UAV swa ms).
These de ices migh exis and be oppo unis ically used,
o hey could o he wise be deployed on-demand by hose
s akeholde s, con ibu ing o he a ailabili y o a
po en ially unlimi ed pool o ne wo k, compu ing, and
s o age esou ces beyond he ne wo k edge. This iew
in oduces se e al s anda diza ion challenges o he NFV
MANO amewo k in e ms o in e ope a ion, lexibili y,
obus ness, and secu i y. These challenges ha e been
p esen ed a he NFV E olu ion
1
e en o ganized by ETSI,
and will build he basis o ou u u e wo k in his esea ch
line.
II. ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This wo k has been pa ially suppo ed by he Eu opean
H2020 LABYRINTH p ojec (g an ag eemen H2020-
MG-2019-TwoS ages-861696), and by he TRUE5G
p ojec (PID2019-108713RB-C52PID2019-108713RB-
C52/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) unded by he Spanish
Na ional Resea ch Agency.
III. REFERENCES
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