Deploying cloud‐native experimental platforms for zero‐touch management 5G and beyond networks

An experimental framework for managing 5G and beyond networks through cloud-native deployments end-to-end monitoring is presented. The uses containerised network functions in a Kubernetes cluster across multi-domain spanning cloud edge hosts. End-to-end demonstrated Grafana dashboards that showcase both infrastructure resources radio metrics two scenarios involving UPF re-selection user mobility. As third scenario, the authors demonstrate how decision engine interacts with platform to perform zero-touch application relocation, highlighting potential enabling dynamic intelligent management of beyond.