5G will lay the foundations for the mainstream broadband wireless technology of the next decade, a leverage toward ensuring the eficiency, effectiveness and adaptability of everyday high-demanding operations, such as those in Public Protection and Disaster Relief. The ITU considers LTE-Advanced systems and 5G as a mission critical PPDR technology able to address the needs of MC intelligence, providing support for MC voice, data and video services as an IMT radio interface. In this paper, we introduce 5G-EPICENTRE, an innovation action funded by the EC under the Horizon 2020 research framework, which aims to deliver an open, federated 5G end-toend experimentation platform specifically tailored to the needs of PPDR software solutions. The envisioned platform will allow SMEs and developers a lower entry barrier to the PPDR market, enabling them to build-up and experiment with their solutions in a cost effective way. The 5G-EPICENTRE platform will be based on an open Service Oriented Architecture and will accommodate open access to 5G networks' resources, acting this way as an open source repository for PPDR 5G Network Applications (NetApps). The purpose of the federated platform is to provide sufficient resources to cover the entire range of the 3 ITU-defined service types (i.e. eMBB, mMTC and URLLC) and to deliver secure interoperability capabilities beyond vendor-specific implementation.
NB-IoT is the first 3GPP technology that has been specifically developed for IoT. In this paper, we will introduce the most important NB-IoT features included in Release 14, Release 15, and Release 16 and the need for testing of NB-IoT solutions. This paper is focused on demonstrating the potential of the new experimentation features included into the TRIANGLE testbed to support testing and benchmarking of Narrowband Internet of Thing (NB-IoT) solutions. TRIANGLE provides an experimentation framework that offers a high level of abstraction using a framework that allows for defining and executing experiments in a very straightforward way. The experimentation framework developed as part of the TRIANGLE project optionally keeps experimenters far from the low level configuration of the infrastructure and provides scenarios which reproduce realistic conditions.
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