5G Core Network

- ZTE 5G Cloud ServCore

Zhijun Li, ZTE Corporation

 ZTE 5G Cloud ServCore Overview
Pre5G Scenarios 5G Scenarios Standard & Open
Orches
NB-IoT eMTC MBB eMBB uRLLC mMTC •Compliant 3GPP, ETSI NFV,
trator
etc. Based on open source
Common Service MANO projects (OPNFV,
OpenStack, etc.)
Multi Access UDM Multi Access PCF …
vRoute NRF AUSF NSSF
2/3/4/5G 2/3/4/5G
r Service based
MQ
•Service based architecture
Multi Access AMF Multi Access SMF •Stateless Design
IWF VNFM
3G 4G 5G … 3/4G 5G • C/U decoupled
Control plane
CDB
Network On Demand
… Multi Access UPF
•Flexible network slicing
2/3/4/5G
User Plane •Component sharing, cross-
DC deployment
Container Container •Network acceleration
VM VM … … VIM
Convergent

•Common NFVI & MANO

•2/3/4/5G access support
Compute Storage Network •Non-3gpp support

Design Principle: Support network virtualization and softwarization, Service based oriented, Support
stateless and stateful, network slicing on demand, support multi-access from 2/3/4/5G;
ZTE 5GC Service Based architecture
• NF type
•IP Address
NRF •FQDN
•Service supported
•…
NF Service
Network Network
Element Function
- NE change to NF, NF split to NF service (VNFC) - NF service registration / De-registration to Standalone NRF
- Service is self contained, reusable, independent - Status detection between NRF and NF service
scalability - NF service automatic management, selection and
- On-demand orchestration and distributed scalability
deployment

- Full-mesh communication - Service based interface

- Shorten network path - Provider and Consumer
- Communication mode：P to P, P to M
AMF SMF … - Decouple and high efficiency
Service 1
PDN GW
PCF

Point2
MME Consumer
Serving
GW Point 1 Provider
PCF UDM
Point3
5GC Service Based Interfaces
Requirements for Service Based Interfaces ZTE view and preference

Bidirectional communication, Reliable communication, • HTTP is light weighted and

Scalability, Low response time, Security, Resource efficiency, suitable for service
invocation;
Stateless enable, Forward compatibility, Easy to upgrade,
• HTTP 2.0 provides advanced
Ease and speed of deployment and instantiation, … features and is more
efficient than HTTP 1.1;
• QUIC is well-defined for
reliable and high efficient
On going discussion in 3GPP communication, but it
depends on the maturity of
IETF spec;
1) HTTP Oriented 2) Diameter Oriented
• JSON is acceptable, if
AVP efficiency is not strictly
JSON/ProtoBuf/Diameter AVP/…
required;
• Diameter AVP can be
HTTP 1.1 / HTTP 2.0 Diameter
considered as HTTP payload,
if high efficiency is required;
TLS QUIC (optional) TLS / DTLS

TCP UDP TCP / SCTP

Redesign NF with common Stateless principles
•Computing separation •Standalone stateful
Cloud Database (UDSF/SDSF) process
from storage
•Data slice for replication •Decoupled from
and migration stateless service logic
Stateless Service Stateful Service
Local Cache Local Cache

Service Service
Logic Logic

•Procedure level •Stateless LB

stateless Stateless Load Balancer guarantee traffic
more balanced
CDB

New Other NF
scaled

LB
Common NF Design Principle with Stateless
ZTE’s new 5GC perfectly support Network Slicing

2 1
1 One key
Smart Home 2
3 Launch

Blueprint
Assemble
Video Monitoring
Dev Ops
Sandbox
SLA/KPI Test Online
Automatic Drive
Define 6 Config
4 Resource 5 3
Assignme
5nt 4
Smart Industry

With New designed 5GC With Carrier DevOps System

•NS service be selected and orchestrated
on demand into a slice
•NS service be shared between NFs and
further shared between slices
•NF service automatic management to
make a slice flexible and easy to maintain
•DevOps system to support network slice
lift cycle management
•Develop loop for network slice on-
boarding
•Operation loop for network slice
assurance
Dev: On-line Design Network Slicing
Policy
NS Design NS Verification Policy Design Validation
Software repository

TOSCA  System comes with software

HOT packages up to 1000
YANG
…  Software package support
local upload and internet
download
 Satisfy users requirements.

Design process

 Graphic interface simple

drag operation to finish
Shared Sandbox Policy Processing Center complicated network
service orchestration design
 Finish in 3 steps within 3
minutes
 All components, connection
Production/Test Auto testing
NFVI For Test Correctness checking Conflicting checking points and links can be set
component tool
and customized
 Visible structures
Service Data Repositories Policy
Catalog Repository
Ops: All round & Real time Monitoring

Health Diagnosis
According to the
severity and quantity of
Application Service Alarm, evaluate the
Monitoring status of network
VNF, Network Service,
Network Slicing
Virtualized Resource
Monitoring
Usage of vCPU、vMem、
storage and network

Physical Resource
Monitoring
Physical Server、Network
Device and Storage
Ops: Policy based Closed-loop Operation

Marketing Developer Operation

& Testing Service

Professional Design
Service Fulfillment & • Visible Service Design
Design Assurance • Model Driven Design on-
Service demand
Unified Portal Optimization
Service Global
Orchestration Policy
based on Automatic Operation
design
Real-time • Service Fulfillment on-
Service Design Optimization based demand
• Monitoring & Analysis
Policy on pre-define
• Simplified Operation
policy
Management
Catalog Silo Real-time Analysis &
Policy Closed-loop Operation
• Design  Deploy 
Modeling Data Collection Analysis  Re-Design
Optimization & Storage • Continues Optimization for
Proposal User Experience and
Network
Real-time Data Collection and Big Data Analysis (Prediction)
ML&AI
ZTE Carrier DevOps Builder 2.0
Based on DevOps Concept
ZTE Carrier DevOps
Builder v2.0, first
E2E Slicing show on 2017 MWC,
Barcelona
Based on 5G architecture, compatible with 2G /
3G / 4G network
End-to-end slice lifecycle view
Policy-based Ops deployment and O&M

Agile & Real-Time

Container-based, minute-level deployment, second-level scaling
Agile development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery
Fast online/offline, real-time adjustment, delivery, effective and
present
WYSIWYG
Dev wizard, components drag & drop
Network Slicing based on Slice templates
Visualization of resource occupation and service
states
5G Collaboration

Strategic Partnership and MoU

Communicate and
cooperate with
mainstream operators
regularly