5G Deployment and Simulation Using Firecracker for Medical Application

Abstract

The main objective of the project is simplifying current deployment of the potential 5G medical solution which includes the 5G core, base-station implementation, and UE (User Equipment) simulation. This project will investigate the use of a recently announced virtualization technology called Firecracker - Micro Virtual Machine (MVM) to deploy 5G network functions securely instead of the traditional container based. The administration of the installation is done using Ansible language and allow operators to quickly install, scale and manage their 5G deployment. Open5GS (5G System) on bare-metal server is used as the 5G core implementation which conforms with Release 16 from 3GPP standard. For the base-station and UE implementation UERANSIM (Radio Access Network Simulation) is used for standalone 5G implementation. The performance of user upload/download speed and latency across remote cities is compared. It shows MVM is a viable 5G secured solution.