Speaker: Dr Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas

Talk Title: Field trial of multi-layer slicing over disaggregated optical networks enabling end-to-end crowdsourced video streaming

Abstract:

The next generation of networks (5G and beyond) is aimed at supporting new Network Services (NSs) with stringent requirements. A Crowd-sourced Live Video Streaming (CLVS) is an example of such NS, in which thousands of users attending an event stream video from their smartphones to a CLVS platform.  The content from all the users is edited in real time, producing an aggregated video, which can be broadcasted to a large number of viewers.  In order to support new vertical applications, Metro-Haul project has designed and built a cost-effective, agile, disaggregated packet-optical metro infrastructure with compute capabilities at the network edge, addressing the capacity increase and characteristics such as low latency and high bandwidth. Metro-Haul control plane consists of the Control, Orchestration and Management (COM) system, based on the principles of ETSI-NFV framework and a hierarchical SDN control plane facilitating the deployment of multilayer end-to-end network slices, including Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) in multiple datacentres and simultaneously dedicating packet and optical network resources. In this talk, we present the experimental demonstration of a CLVS NS using Metro Haul infrastructure, with NFV orchestration using COM system implemented over a disaggregated optical network testbed in UK. The service creation procedure, from planning to service deployment is shown and measured against the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) defined by 5GPPP.

Bio:

Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2015 and 2019 respectively. He is currently working as a Senior Research Associate in High Performance Networks Research Group, University of Bristol. His interests lie in the areas of NFV orchestration of 5G network services, multi-access edge computing, software defined networks and enterprise/service provider level routing and switching.

Dr Abubakar Siddique Muqaddas, Senior Research Associate, HPN Research Group