University of Surrey - 5G Telecommunications

22 Nov 2018

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The University of Surrey's 5G Innovation Centre houses an indoor and outdoor live testbed which allows testing of technologies in a realistic situation. Both industry and academic teams can have access to this testbed, which can support a number of technologies including: Flat distributed context aware network (5G core) Content caching 60GHz mmWave 700MHz SDR 2.6 & 3.5 TDD 26GHz RAN Drone services New air-interface Light MAC and RRM Multi-cell joint processing Antennas and propagation System architecture co-existence Testbed proof-of-concepts Network virtualization platform SDN communication

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​The 5GIC testbed covers 4km2 around the University of Surrey campus and consists of three macro cells and 56 small cells, with a combination of LTE and 5GNR. A cluster 5GIC exchange hub can provide brokerage between testbeds to enable dedicated end-to-end sliceable services and virtualised context-aware core network interconnection between network services. The Centre is connected to a 5G MNO Network Operation Centres (NOCs), as well as to a 4G MNO Network Operation Centres. As part of the EU SaT5G project. Virtualized satellite terminal functions are integrated to the 5GIC testbed and user trials being conducted. In 2018 an over-the-air satellite (SES) demonstration was conducted at the EuCNC 2018. In 2019 user demonstration of backhaul and content delivery over-the-air with the Avanti satellite will be performed.

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