5G-PICTURE: 5G-PPP Fase 2. H2020

Will design and develop an integrated, scalable and open 5G infrastructure with the aim to support operational and end-user services for both ICT and “vertical” industries. This infrastructure will rely on a converged fronthaul and backhaul solution, integrating advanced wireless access and novel optical network domains. To address the limitations of current solutions, 5G-PICTURE will adopt the novel concept of Disaggregated-Radio Access Networks (DA-RANs), allowing any service to flexibly mix-and-match and use compute, storage and network resources through HW programmability. It will also rely on network softwarisation to enable an open reference platform instantiating a variety of network functions and adopt slicing and service chaining to facilitate optimised multi-tenancy operation. 5G, Networks"