MEF 3.

0 & The Road to 5G:

Transport, Network Slicing, Orchestration, and Fixed-
Mobile Convergence

Emerson Moura
Distinguished Systems Engineer | Cisco
 What is new in 5G?

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5G Is Use-Case Driven

M assive M TC Critical M TC

TRAFFIC SAFETY
LOGISTICS
& CONTROL

SM ART INDUSTRIAL REM OTE

FLEET
AGRICULTURE APPLICATION & TRAINING
M ANAGEM ENT CONTROL
REM OTE
SM ART REM OTE
TRACKING M ANUFAC-
M ETER TURING SURGERY

LOW COST, LOW ENERGY Enhanced M obile ULTRA RELIABLE VERY LOW LATENCY
SMALL DATA VOLUMES MASSIVE NUMBERS VERY HIGH AVAILABILITY
Broadband

ENTERPRISE VR/AR

HOM E M OBILE/ SM ARTPHONES BROADCASTING

W IRELESS/
FIXED

VENUES NON-SIM 4K/8K UHD

DEVICES

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Technical Expectations of 5G

Peak Data Connection 10k - 1m devices Reliability 99.999%

1 - 20 Gbps
Rate Density / km2 (of packets)

User 10 - 100 M bps Network

Position 10m - <1m
Experienced Energy ×1 - ×100 accuracy
Data Rate Efficiency

Strong subscriber
Spectral Area Traffic 0.1 - 10 authentication, user
×1 - ×3 Security privacy and network
Efficiency Capacity M bps / m 2
security

350 - 500 99.999%

Mobility Availability
km/h (of time)

Latency 1 - 10 ms Battery life 10 years*

*For low power IoT devices
Source: ITU-R, NGMN, 3GPP
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Critical MTC: Communications Distance vs. Latency
Process
automation
1s
Inter-substation comm.
500 ms

200 ms Tele-surgery Latency ~150 ms

Substation-internal
comm.
Remote handling
100 ms Hot rolling w/o haptic feedback
Latency

mill control
Automated guided
20 ms vehicle Remote handling with haptic feedback
Autonomous (e.g. remote mining)
driving
10 ms Robot
manufacturing
cell/roundtable
3 ms
Drive Control
1 ms (packaging, printing)
100 us Wind
turbine- High speed
internal motion control

2m 10 m 100 m 1 km 10 km 100 km
Communication distance
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5G-Enabled Digitalization Revenues for ICT Players

$US “Normal market +22% 1307

Billions growth” 20

1130
55
73
• Agriculture
17
45 104 • Retail
66
119 • Financial Services
“Ramp up” 879 86
13
33 101 129 • Automotive
54
+181% 65 109
160 • Media &Entertainment
595 77
8
21 82
144
164
• Public transport
38
42
51
116 140 • Healthcare
54
259 81
108
206
233 • Public Safety
4
9
17
17
22
72 164
• Manufacturing
97 23 115
36
5 28 1
3
7
6
8
8
14
31
52 113
168
216 250
• Energy & Utilities
1
0
2 11
20 49
1
0 4
3
6
5 18
2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026

5G enabled digitalization revenues for ICT players

Revenues generated by new industry digitalization value-producing opportunities
that are created or enhanced by the introduction of 5G networks • Source: Ericsson
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On the Road to 5G
2016 2017 2018 2019 2020

3GPP Rel-14 Rel-15 Rel-16 Rel-17

Early
deployments 5G new Carrier Type, NR

Low latency

RAN Virtualization

M assive M IM O

M assive IoT

LTE Advanced

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3GPP R15 – 2 Architecture Tracks for New Radio

3GPP Target
5G Enabled EPC Q4 17 NextGen Core

S1-based New interface

Option 1 Option 3 Option 5 Option 2

Option 7 Option 4

Xn Xn

LTE NR LTE NR

LTE
LTE NR/EPC
LTE NR/EPC NR/NXGC

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5G RAN Network
5G C-RAN Higher Splits Lower Splits

3GPP
3GPP
tbd

• Multiple Functional Splits between RRH and BBU based on Transport and RAN efficiency tradeoff
• Different Functional Split has different KPIs

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5G Transport – Dimensioning Examples
Radio gNB (v)EPC
(e)CPRI (e)S1
5G D-RAN
10-25G/sector < 1-10G
75µs < 10ms

Radio gNB (v)EPC

(e)CPRI (e)S1
5G C-RAN
10-25G/sector 10-40G
< 75µs < 10ms

Radio DU CU (v)EPC
(e)CPRI F1 (e)S1
eMBB with V-RAN
10-25G/sector < 1-10G 10-40G
75µs < 5ms < 10ms

Radio DU CU (v)EPC
› Example dimensions are traffic model based
(e)CPRI
C-MTC with V-RAN › All latency numbers in the slide are one way
< 30µs › Throughput is related to carrier bandwidth and MIMO layers
(indicative)

Antenna Hub Central Office Switching/Aggr

5G Main Components & Their Evolution

Wireless LTE evolution NB-IoT NR Massive MIMO

Access

Fronthaul Backhaul Resource RAN Transport

Transport Differentiation Interaction

Cloud NFV SDN Virtual

Data Center PaaS 5G
Network Cloud Distributed Cloud
Enabled Scalability Deployment Native
Applications

Management Orchestration Analytics Automation Security

Source: Ericsson

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MEF Work Areas

1. Transport for 5G

2. Network Slicing

3. Orchestrating 5G Services

4. MEF Services over 5G

 Transport for 5G

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Transport Evolution – Backhaul & Fronthaul
Considerations

Thousands Hundreds
# sites

Sites
Radio Evolved
Access Packet
Coordination Network Network

Synchronization

Capacity Latency Security Slicing

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RAN Coordination Requirements

Transport capacity Radio coordination

and one-way latency opportunities

Fronthaul:
Optimal coordination with

C-RAN
2.5/5/10/25/(50) Gbps
co-located basebands
≤ 75 µs

Inter-site:
10/40 Gbps Optimal coordination with High capacity sites
dedicated fiber transport

Virtualized RAN **
≤ 23-30 µs

Inter-site: Capacity sites

BH dimensioning* Tight coordination with

Distributed RAN
high performance transport
≤ 5 ms
Network wide coverage
Inter-site:
BH dimensioning* Loose coordination with
any transport
≤ 30 ms
*Capacity based on backhaul dimensioning **Optional

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MEF 22.2 Terminology

Network
controller /
Remote Base gateway site
radio site Fronthaul Station site Backhaul

RRU Marco RBS SGW,MME

M idhaul Backhaul
Small cell
site

Small RBS

Backhaul – macro/small cell to core

Midhaul – small cell to macro
Fronthaul – remote radio to baseband unit

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MEF 22 Phase 4 - Transport for 5G
CU/DU EBH
(BBU) MBH
MFH1 CU/DU
CORE
5G RRU (BBU) 5G RRU

MFH1 MBH
MFH2 MFH3 CU CU/DU
5G RRU (BBU)
5G RRU DU (BBU)

DU Distributed Unit MFH2 MFH3

DU CU
CU Centralized Unit 5G RRU (BBU)

• Functional Splits can be in 1 or 2 stages (RRH-DU- • RRH, CU, DU, and Core distributed based on
CU) Services KPIs
• Three types of Fronthaul Networks • Multiple configurations can be co-located
• Each has its own KPIs • Transport Network can provide support for all

• MEF Ethernet Service Types – Mobile Fronthaul 1,2,3, Mobile Backhaul, Ethernet Backhaul
• Multiple Ethernet Service Types can co-exist

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 Network Slicing

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 Three Alternative Network Scenarios Modeled
1. One big network

2. Separate networks

3. Network slicing

This study was restricted to evaluating the impacts of network slicing in the core network only.

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Benefits of Network Slicing
Overall Economic Impact of Network Slicing
Network slicing enables:
– New revenue generation
– Lower opex
– Greater capex efficiency

Result:
Significantly increased economic benefit
through new service launches.
Transport Network Slicing – System View

M FH1 M FH2 M FH3 M BH EBH

Slice Slice Slice Slice Slice

• MEF Ethernet Service based on EVCs

• Ethernet Service Slice is a group of Ethernet Services (EVC)
• A new Group of Ethernet Service is now introduced
Transport Network Slicing Representation

Slice Representation Exam ples - A Group of EVCs

Slice
• Single S-Tag = EVC, Enhanced M EF tools (e.g., Trunk/OVC+,
EVC 1 Envelope+) to represent Slice ID
EVC 2
• Single S-Tag – Higher order bits=Slice ID, Lower order bits=EVC
EVC 3
• Double S-Tag – Inner Tag=EVC, Outer Tag=Slice ID
EVC 4
• PBB – S-Tag=EVC, B-Tag+I-Tag=Slice ID
• M PLS – S-Tag=EVC, M PLS Label=Slice ID

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3GPP Network Slicing – E2E Service View

5G America White Paper

Network Slicing for 5G Network & Services

• Fronthaul is inside the RAN Slice

between RRH and BBU or between
RRH & DU and DU and CU(BBU)

• Backhaul is between RAN and

M obile Core Network or between
RAN and W ireline Network for
W ireline Services

• There is an East-W est association

between RAN, Core, and Transport
RRH DU CU

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 Orchestrating 5G Services

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5G Network End-to-End Orchestration

• E-2-E LSO = Mobile LSO + Transport LSO

• MEF LSO -> Transport LSO

• MEF LSO extends to E-2-E LSO and/or

Mobile LSO
E2E LSO

Mobile LSO Transport LSO

Service
RF MFH MFH MBH EBH
CU
Network UE RRH DU (BBU) CORE

Resource
RAN

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Data-Driven Orchestration

Network Slice Catalogue : Service.. n

Mobile Wire-line Health Care
Broadband Internet access …... …...
Health
Nomadic Enterprise …… ……
Broadband Communication Robotic communication
Industry M assive Premium Communication
Automation Sensors/Actuator
Media
Network Service Composition MBB Basic
Logical
Networks
Network Slice Resources:
Service Provider Service Provider IT

Physical Resources
Access/Mobility Core Cloud

Management & Control

Access Applications
(Access, Connectivity, Computing, Storage, ..)
M o b ile

F ix e d Cloud Infrastructure

Transport

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Orchestrating 5G Services
Ensuring 5G-based services are orchestratable through SDN controllers as part of :
• Heterogeneous connectivity service
– Multi-Operator
– Multi-Technology

• Full service lifecycle

– Network resource provisioning
– Service OAM and SAT
– Service assurance (e.g. Zero touch telemetry, closed loopback control)
– OpenCS 5G project
• Defining use cases, epics and user stories
• Use case -> Information Model -> Data Model -> standardized open northbound APIs for 5G
environments
5G Ready Core

MEF LSO - Management & Orchestration & Analytics & Exposure

Virtualization Software Defined Distributed Cloud Network Slicing

VN VN Networking CORE & RAN
F F (SDN)

@ Multi-access with new 5G RAT, Fixed Wireless Broadband, Wi-Fi and FTTx
SDN based Transport with options for white label switches/routers
Local and Private Core Networks
User-Plane(s) for various use cases and deployment options (e.g. low latency)

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 MEF Services over 5G

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MEF Services Over 5G – Why?

M ore and m ore traffic is now term inated on m obile devices

Custom ers would like the sam e SLA

• at the office, home, or traveling

Fiber availability is lim ited

Copper plants are old and deteriorating

• Optimized for low bandwidth
• T1/E1 replacement

Low CAPEX (FedEx vs. Technician)

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Advantages of MEF Services Over 5G

S ERVICE ON DEMAND
(TIME TO DELIVER = R EVENUE)

FAST ACTIVATION

O UT-OF-BAND MANAGEMENT
FOR SDN NETWORKS

S UPPORTING IOT USE CASE

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MEF Services Over 5G
• MEF services
– Carrier Ethernet
– IP
• Network slicing allows customer separation for EVC end-to-end
• 5G adds native support for IP or Ethernet frames/service at the UE

Service Provider
End-to-End EVC

Mobile Network Mobile Network Service

RAN BS site RAN NC site Provider Core
site

UNI CEN UNI

RAN CE Backhaul EVC

RAN CE
 Summary

1 5G is much more than a new wireless technology

2 Multiple transport options can support 5G interfaces

3 Application driven networks calls for network slicing

4 LSO can facilitate orchestration of mobile and fixed networks

5 MEF Services can run fully/partially over 5G

MEF 3.0 & The Road to 5G:
Transport, Network Slicing, Orchestration, and Fixed-
Mobile Convergence

Emerson Moura
Distinguished Systems Engineer | Cisco