Demo Site - Ljubljana
A private 5G network operating at 3.8 GHz, featuring an edge node, distributed far-edge nodes, and 5G user devices. This network can be deployed on an IaaS platform or in the cloud.
The INTERNET INSTITUTE‘s testbed in Ljubljana centers on a 5G Standalone Non-Public Network (NPN), functioning as a campus network within ININ’s lab. This infrastructure utilizes a Software Defined Radio (SDR) and Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI)-based radio and mobile core system, offering flexible configurations through Network Function Virtualization (NFV). It also integrates a cloud backend, industrial end-user devices, a comprehensive test and validation toolkit, and energy consumption measurement tools.
This testbed provides both indoor and outdoor experimentation sites, as well as a portable mobile node for field-based network testing and service verification. The facility’s development has been supported by numerous EU co-funded research and innovation projects, including 5GASP, 5G-LOGINNOV, Int5Gent, EVOLVED-5G, 5G-INDUCE, 5G-IANA, NEPHELE, and 6Green, demonstrating its role as a robust platform for advanced 5G research and development.
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Partner involved
The experimental facility provided to EXIGENCE by ITAV in Aveiro, Portugal, offers a sophisticated platform that transcends simple equipment aggregation. This advanced infrastructure creates a realistic, city-wide environment for the development, integration, and testing of cutting-edge 5G and beyond technologies. It achieves this by seamlessly integrating research-grade and commercial solutions with open lab spaces. The geographically distributed infrastructure features diverse indoor and outdoor 5G New Radio (NR) deployments, underpinned by a variety of 5G Core and Edge Computing systems, effectively simulating a real-world urban network.
Beyond its robust wireless communication infrastructure, the facility incorporates a wide array of connected devices, including CCTV cameras, user equipment, and IoT devices, enabling comprehensive validation of mobile networking technologies. This resource diversity, which spans varying levels of technological readiness and customisation across multiple organisations, provides an ideal setting for developing multi-domain, multi-technology solutions. The platform supports the entire innovation lifecycle, from initial conceptualisation and prototyping to final validation, ensuring that technologies are rigorously tested within a realistic and diverse environment
The core infrastructure deployed at ININ site in Ljubljana:
KVM/OpenStack Cluster
- 5 host machines
- 200 cores
- 500GB RAM
- 1Gbps/10Gbps Ethernet
- 1000/100 internet speed
Kubernetes/Docker
Orchestration
- Open Source MANO
Mobile Network
- 5G SA
- features supported up to the 3GPP Release 17
- AMF, AUSF, SMF, UPF, UDM and 5G-EIR
- SDR based gNb
- freq. band N77, up to 100 MHz bandwidth
- 4×4 MIMO, up to QAM-256, up to 2 W per port
- slicing eMBB, mMTC, with QoS Flows (3GPP 5QI)
Edge capabilities
- Dell PowerEdge r440
- 20x CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4210R CPU @2.40 GHz
- 64 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD
- CPRI
- Standalone Kubernetes cluster
- Dell PowerEdge XR12
- 20x CPU Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4310R CPU @2.40 GHz
- 64 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD
- CPRI
- Standalone Kubernetes cluster
Mobile UE/Far-Edge capabilities
- SierraWireless EM9191 5G modem
- SierraWireless EM9293 5G modem
- 4x CPU (11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1115GRE @3.00GHz
- 8 GB RAM, 128 GB HDD
- Standalone Kubernetes cluster
Mobile Network Testing System (qMON)
qMON is a Telco-grade end-to-end network monitoring and testing solution. qMON components are deployed in a distributed system architecture with modular capabilities (mobile, fixed and cloud deployment) that provides redundant local and centralised storage of network and services metrics and test results, flexible results exporting, advanced visualisations and more. As qMON extensions for energy consumption measurements, following tools are already implemented in the testbed: Scaphandre and NETIO
qMON System Components:
- System Management – centralised cloud management of the qMON Agent probes
- Reference Servers (VM/VNF/Docker) – reference test endpoints, can be deployed in various formats
- Test Agents (PNF/VNF/Docker/Android) – test probes, can be deployed in various formats and supports various environments (mobile, fixed and cloud)
- Results Collector (VM/VNF/Docker) – collects the test results gathered from qMON Agent probes
- qMON Analytics (VM/VNF/Docker) – Grafana- and Tableau based dashboards for real-time and off-line test results visualisations
