Open5GCore – The Next Mobile Core Network Testbed Platform

The Open5GCore toolkit is a practical implementation of the carrier-grade network towards the 5G environment. It mirrors the pre-standard advancements on the core network, radio network integration, distributed management and virtualisation.

The Open5GCore aims at providing support and speeding-up research, facilitating know-how transfer. It serves as a basis for research projects, enabling innovation, hands-on implementation, realistic evaluation and demonstration of novel concepts and technologies. 

Open5GCore addresses the following technological areas:

• 5G Radio Support Research: A new Radio requires a new Network
• Wireless Convergence: The future includes LTE and WiFi
• Total Convergence: Fixed, Satellite and Backhaul Integration
• Network Functions Virtualisation & Network Virtualisation
• Edge Network Support
• Software Engineering based Telco
• Cognitive Management Systems
• Robustness and Security
• Devices and Applications Support

5G research activities and Open5GCore toolkit developments are supported by Fraunhofer FOKUS Competence Center NGNI [2] and by the Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) – AV research group [3].

For more information on Open5GCore, please visit www.Open5GCore.net [4]