Development of High Available and High Performance 6G Cross Cloud Infrastructure Technology

Main institute: ntels
Participating institute: HFR, OSIA(Open Standards and ICT Association), SK telecom, KT
Ministry: MSIT(Ministry of Science and ICT)
Organization: IITP (Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion)

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The primary goal is to develop high-performance and high-availability 6G cross-cloud infrastructure technologies for telecommunications. This involves creating a cloud-native infrastructure to operate 6G services in heterogeneous cloud environments, ensuring robust performance and reliability through container-centric infrastructure, FaaS-based provisioning, computing-communication optimization, and a unified management platform.

The project will validate these technologies via open-source 6G cloud testbeds, demonstrating RAN and Core CNF operations. Final deliverables include a telco-grade 6G cloud infrastructure system and a cross-cloud management platform (software).

The project is progressed into 2 stages.

  • Stage1 – Develop 6G cloud infrastructure (Telco Cloud Stack v1.0) and management platform framework.
    • Build telco CaaS using OpenStack and Baremetal-as-a-Service.
    • Develop service/resource specification, provisioning, and orchestration for CNFs.
    • Create Overlay Network (CNI) and acceleration functions (SR-IOV, DPDK).
    • Establish GitOps-based management cluster and monitoring.
    • Demonstrate 5G Core CNF deployment and lifecycle management.
  • Stage2 – Advance 6G cloud infrastructure (Telco Cloud Stack v2.0) and integrated management system.
    • Enhance CaaS across three cloud types with Anuket RA2.
    • Optimize computing-communication with eBPF and SmartNIC.
    • Upgrade management platform with PaaS/FaaS and integrated dashboard.
    • Develop RAN-Core CNF lifecycle management and service migration.
    • Demonstrate RAN-Core integration and 6G Evolved SBA-based Core CNF.

Research and Development Achievements

Key Activities

  • Automated Telco infrastructure and 5G Core Network (CN) deployment in AWS environment
Architecture of Telco Infrastructure and 5G Core Network Deployment in AWS
  • Automate resource and Bootstrap Management Cluster creation in AWS using Ansible.
  • Establish multi-cluster environment and automate 5G CN deployment using open-source tools.
  • Configure inter-cluster networking and 5G network environment in multi-cluster settings using open-source solutions.
  • Design of PaaS platform architecture in cloud infrastructure
Developer Interaction Layer for CI/CD and PaaS Components
  • Define developer interaction layer for CI/CD pipeline triggering and monitoring.
  • Define independent Git repository for storing application source code and infrastructure configuration files.
  • Define open-source Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline to synchronize Git repository and actual cluster states.
  • Analyze candidate components to provide additional functionalities based on various Cloud-Native Function (CNF) requirements.

Link to project-related software