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Objectives:<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

5G-EMERGE is a digital transformation project, converging satellite services with online delivery, making use of the 3GPP 5G specification as convergence technology.<\/p>\n

The project envisages an open multi-tenant ecosystem that seamlessly integrates Near Edges well connected to Satellite Teleport with distributed Far Edges through a virtualised satellite connection to 5G- base stations. This solution is a hybrid, native IP, infrastructure based on open standards to deploy edges in both 5G and non 5G-network head-ends, home networks and networks in vehicles. The edge architecture can host applications and expose popular content transparently to end-users, with caching and satellite backhaul as core services.<\/p>\n

To achieve these aims, 5G-EMERGE is based on an open ecosystem, exploiting existing solutions where appropriate. Further it is establishing the market viability and validating the performance through real world testbeds.<\/p>\n

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Challenges<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Key challenges relate to the design of an ecosystem that allows potentially competing service providers to cooperate in an open distributed edge network with satellite backhaul.<\/p>\n

There is a lack of defined 5G compliant interfaces essential to connect functional components to guarantee end-to-end functioning of this multi-tenant setup, thus 5G-EMERGE has to design a service provisioning layer to control operation and enable to use the system with distributed edges as a single network.<\/p>\n

Another challenge concerns the optimization of content provisioning to the distributed edges.<\/p>\n

And there is the question of transparent service discovery that will allow standard playout applications to retrieve content from nearby 5G-EMERGE edges.<\/p>\n

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Benefits<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

Because 5G-EMERGE converges satellite distribution with online media delivery, it leverages satellite\u2019s unique capability of distributing popular content in a cost-efficient manner over a large region with operationally superior quality that avoids congested interconnection hubs.<\/p>\n

End users will be able to enjoy superior and cost effective streaming applications providing live and on-demand offerings from multiple Content Providers using normal applications on their own internet connected devices.<\/p>\n

A Native IP solution allows different satellite networks to be used and pre-fetching mechanisms select popular content for specific edge locations, maximising efficiency of satellite backhaul capacity.<\/p>\n

This is thanks to the 5G-EMERGE distributed edges that can be deployed in cars, trains, ships, planes, homes, apartment buildings, hotels, network head ends or at the access of 4G and 5G networks.<\/p>\n

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Features<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

The baseline service layout of the 5G-EMERGE ecosystem considers different actors and datastreams. The satellite teleport will receive the most popular live and on demand content from a content provider that is intended for the specific region covered by the satellites connected to the uplink.<\/p>\n

Satellites will distribute this content to home gateways, or edges in vehicles and 4G\/5G base stations through which it will be delivered to the end-user. In this manner, end-user playout devices controlled by content providers\u2019\/aggregators\u2019 applications can access relevant content in the local network and make use of 5G edge processing capabilities.<\/p>\n

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System Architecture<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

The architecture follows the layout of different components in system function classes (SF) as per illustration.<\/p>\n

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Plan<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n

5G-EMERGE consists of 2 project phases of 2 years each.<\/p>\n

Phase I<\/span> is organised in 5 work packages that will be delivered in 4 milestones with half year intervals:<\/p>\n