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Architectural Leadership for the 5G era Designing the flexible 5G system architecture

Dr. Volker Ziegler

Head of 5G Leadership, Chief Architect

Nokia Mobile Networks

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Designing the 5G system architecture: What capabilities will 5G need to

bring? Flexibility, software-ization all the way to radio, massive scalability, automation

Dynamic, flexible and

automated

Network slicing for

different use-cases:

Differentiated service

management and value

optimization for

operators

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long fibers

short waves & wires

Programmable Network OS

Universal Adaptive Core

Humans

& Machines

multi-operator federation

access agnostic converged core

modular, decomposed network functions

Massive Scale Access

Access Remote

mass edge monitoring

new trust framework

ecosystem sharing

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common data layer

self-optimized coverage & capacity

dynamic network optimization

dynamic customer services

SDN NFV

Management & Orchestration

Dynamic Data Security

Smart Network Fabric 3

machine

learning

analytics Augmented Cognition Systems

External data sources

Digital Value

Platforms

ANP, CSP, ICP, Vertical apps

Converged Edge Cloud

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Architecture Vision for the 5G era: The Future X Network

Cognitive and converged and cloud-optimized network evolution

Open APIs

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The flexible 5G system architecture: Nokia AirScale radio portfolio

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Ready to support 5G technologies

All kind of spectrum and bandwidth

Scalable Massive MIMO, 3D MIMO, beamforming and beamsteering

Flexible frame design, dynamic optimization

Multi-connectivity and aggregation

Cloud RAN for massive scalability & openness

Backward compatible new platforms addressing:

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The flexible 5G system architecture: Nokia Cloud Packet Core portfolio

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Web scale capacity and programmability, dynamic network slicing

Control plane

User plane

Shared Data Layer

Stateless control plane VNFs

Separation of control and user (data) plane

Cloud data store such as Shared Data Layer State-efficient VNF processing Deployment flexibility

Licensed

Unlicensed

Shared

Fixed

Mobile

Multi-access

Scalability Configurability

Cloud-native architecture

Centralized Data Center

Distributed Data Centers

Throughput optimized Telco optimized

Network design

Focus on reducing latency & backbone

traffic

Real-time capable

Compact & distributed

Optimized security

Core

OSS

Radio controllers Radio

Demand

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E2E Cloud based infrastructure • Common platform to provision, monitor, and manage network resources

• Enable IaaS, SaaS, BDaaS, and PaaS offerings with zero time to market

Services transformation as integral pre-requisite for 5G architecture design

Automation of E2E Workflows and service delivery • Automated E2E workflow orchestration of processes and tools

• Zero touch, Self service, Plug and Play type of service delivery tools

Self Optimizing networks for simplifying network optimization

through automatic detection and

continuous correction

Continuous Delivery to enable low risk software release

management, better quality and seamless

recovery

Predictive Analytics for outage prevention and root cause

determination

Crowd Operations using trained resources from

the global community to

perform operations, tasks, and

services remotely via the

cloud.