Vertical industries today can only verify use cases in small scales in commercial environments, before investing in large scale deployments.  Through ICT-17 projects, 5G infrastructures become available to verticals to test their applications.  However, large-scale trials are still not possible.  5G-VICTORI conducts large scale trials for advanced vertical use case verification focusing on Transportation, Energy, Media and Factories of the Future and cross-vertical use cases.  It leverages 5G network technologies developed in 5G-PPP phase 1 and 2 projects 5G-XHaul and 5G-PICTURE, and exploits extensively existing facilities interconnecting main sites of all ICT-17 infrastructures (i.e. 5G-VINNI, 5GENESIS and 5G-EVE), and the 5GUK testbed in a Pan-European Infrastructure. 

The project provides enhancements of existing infrastructures towards integration of a large variety of vertical and cross-vertical use-cases.  5G-VICTORI's platform aims to transform current closed, purposely developed and dedicated infrastructures into open environments where resources and functions are exposed to ICT and vertical industries through common vertical and non-vertical specific repositories.  These functions can be accessed, shared on demand and deployed to compose very diverse set of services in a large variety of ecosystems.  

5G-VICTORI's uniquely strong consortium brings together major players from ICT including operators, equipment vendors, academic & research organisations and SMEs, main players from vertical industries (including nationwide rail and electricity operators, rail technology vendors, media content delivery players), and a number of SMEs focusing on advanced vertical services.

On 4th October, the 5G-VICTORI Bristol cluster performed a successful field trial in Bristol (UK) showcasing the UC #1.2: Digital Mobility (Bristol). A total of three applications were showcased as follows:

• App1: Mativision Immersive media and AR/VR services to travellers
• App2: Mativision VR Multicamera Live streaming at University of Bristol campus
• App3: Urban Hawk Data Intelligence Limited Future Mobility

Smart Internet Lab of the University of Bristol successfully extended the 5GUK Test network in order to accommodate the 5G-VICTORI Digital Mobility use-case, Apps 1, 2, and 3. The baseline functionality and available infrastructure is built as part of the 5GUK test network available through the Smart Internet Lab of the University of Bristol, which integrates:

• Digital Catapult #5GNR Amarisoft callbox
• i2CAT Foundation’s Slice Manager
• Zeetta Networks Automate’s networking solutions

A 5G Nomadic node with edge processing capabilities was deployed on a boat to provide seamless connectivity and mobility to the users on-board during the boat journey.

University of Bristol also designed, implemented and demonstrated the Edge Monitoring to collect metrics from all Network Services within an edge. Additionally, an Android application was developed by the 5GUK testbed team as part of the 5GUK Monitoring and Measurement tools to monitor and measure KPIs on the UEs. Handset 5G metrics (Cell ID, RSRP, RSRQ, SINR, GPS coordinates, DL/UL throughput, etc.) and WiFi metrics (Link speed, Link quality, etc.) were directly sent to the Edge Monitoring (Elasticsearch). This capability was demonstrated live on the headsets alongside the demonstrations of APPs 1-3.

University of Bristol also designed and implemented the Edge Profiling and VIOS Profiling components. Through the Edge Profiler, all the Apps 1 and 2 were profiled and their performance profile datasets were generated for each NS. Then, through the predictor models embedded in the VIOS Profiling component, the optimum configuration of resources needed to meet the Performance thresholds (specified in the Experiment Descriptor) were predicted using ML based techniques. These thresholds were applied by VIOS to each NS in the deployment phase.