Huawei has joined the 5G-MoNArch (5G Mobile Network Architecture) consortium that led by Nokia and includes Deutsche Telekom, Samsung and Telecom Italia, as well as several leading research institutions.
The 5G-MoNArch is phase 2 of the European Union's 5G PPP program to focus on the design of 5G mobile network architectures. It comprise innovations such as the cloud-enabled protocol stack, inter-slice control and management, and experiment-driven optimization along with design of secure, resilient as well as resource-elastic network functions.
The 5G-MoNArch will run through 2017-2019 and the European Union is providing EUR 7.7 million in funding. Joint research on a global scale has fostered the development of 5G by laying the foundation of the 5G system and acting as a catalyst in setting an early consensus before and along with standardization.
Huawei R&D is focused on the Fifth Generation Communication Automotive Research and innovation (5GCAR), E2E-aware Optimization and advancement for the Network Edge of 5G New Radio (ONE5G), 5G Programmable Infrastructure Converging disaggregated network and compute Resources (5G-Picture), 5G Development and Validation Platform for global Industry-specific Network Services and Apps (5Gtango).
Within 5G-MoNArch, Huawei is leading the design of the flexible and adaptive architecture, which will be demonstrated by 5G-MoNArch testbeds.
Dr. Zhou Hong, President of the Huawei European Research Institute
Network slicing is not only a technology enabler, but a means to revolutionize the telecommunications ecosystem and truly realize the vision of 5G to change society. The flagship 5G-MoNArch project has thus placed network slicing at the core of its flexible and adaptive architecture design.
