Abbreviations

Abbreviation	Description
CC	Cluster Controller
CM	Cluster Member
COTS	Common Off-the Shelf equipment
CPN	Control Plane Node
EPC	Evolved Packet Core (see 3GPP LTE)
EPS	Evolved Packet System (see 3GPP LTE)
MANO	Management and Orchestration
Network Service	Function Chained VNFs, often instantiated as a ‘Network Slice’
NSD	Network Service Descriptor
SDN	Software Defined Networking
ONF	Open Network Forum
VNF	Virtual Network Function
VNFD	Virtual Network Function Descriptor
UPN	User Plane Node (see 3GPP CUPS Technical Report)

 

Glossary

Term	Definition
Virtualisation	The replacement of a bespoke vendor provided hardware based Network Element solution with a software based implementation that runs on COTS hardware.

 

Platforms

Organisation	Reference	Web Reference	Content
	CentOS	CentOS	Operating System for 5GIC EPC + 5G Evolved VNF’s
	FITEagle	FITEagle	Federated Testbed Access system
	KVM	KVM	KVM Operating System
	OpenBaton	OpenBaton	Orchestrator from Fraunhofer Fokus, (MANO-compliant)
	Open Daylight	Open Daylight	VIM for SDN
	Open Networking Forum Site	ONF	Open Networking Forum site, Define OpenFlow Protocol
	OpenStack Site	OpenStack	OpenStack Site, VIM for NFV
	Redmine Site	Redmine	Ticketing system
	Zabbix Site	Zabbix	Zabbix is used for Infrastructure and VNF performance monitoring

 

Standards

Organisation	Reference	Web Reference	Content
	3GPP, 22.891, SMARTER	TR22.981	Technical Report on Next Generation Use Cases (59)
	3GPP 23.714, CUPS	TR23.714	Technical Report on Control and User Plane separation of the EPC.
	3GPP, 23.799, NexGen	TR23.799	Technical Report on Next Generation Architectures
	3GPP, 38.913, NGAT	TR38.913	Technical Report on Next Generation Access Technologies
	ETSI, ISG, NFV, Use Cases	gs_NFV001	Use case Descriptions
	ETSI, ISG, NFV, Architecture	gs_NFV002	Interfaces, Architecure, Functiojnality and Features
	ETSI, ISG, NFV, Glossary	gs_NFV003	Glossary
	ETSI, ISG, NFV, Requirements	gs_NFV004	NFV Requirements
	ETSI, ISG, NFV, MANO Definition	gs_NFV-MANO_001	MANO definition, VNFD and NFD templates
	NGMN, 5G Whitepaper	NGMN_5G_White_Paper_V1.0	Includes use cases for virtualisation for Next Generation Architectures
	NGMN, Slicing Whitepaper	NGMN_Slicing	Intrtoduces the concept of ETE Network Slicing
	ONF, OpenFlow v1.3	openflow-spec-v1.3.1	OpenFlowv1.3 protocol specification, operated over a Neutron interface