5GZORRO_D5.1: Use case validation plan and testbed design

This document presents the validation plan for use cases of the H2020 5GZORRO project, together with the description of the available infrastructure and resources on the 5GZORRO testbeds and the initial setup on the testbeds. The project goal is to design, develop and validate a 5G architecture capable to incorporate zero-touch automation solutions for the orchestration of services and resources, tightly coupled with a multi-stakeholder market of 5G resources. This objective is supported by the 5GZORRO platform, which leverages Artificial Intelligence (AI) on top of Data Lake technologies to provide service management automation, easing the overall service management through the identification of usage patterns. The platform also leverages the use of distributed ledger technologies to implement a trust enabled and scalable marketplace for the tracking the resource offers and the associated trust levels and actions. The 5GZORRO platform will be validated in terms of overall functionality and in terms of KPIs using the three reference use cases: Smart Contracts for Ubiquitous Computing/Connectivity, which tests the implementation of DLT-based Smart Contracts and Oracles in support of a trusted Marketplace catalogue of 5G resource offers from multiple providers and stakeholders. Dynamic spectrum allocation, which leverages the Marketplace platform to specifically trade licensed spectrum resources, to configure accordingly the RAN elements of the related network slices and to monitor the associated SLAs for breach verification. Pervasive virtual Content Distribution Network (vCDN) Services, which covers the intelligent selection of resource offers from Marketplace and the subsequent orchestrated provisioning and management of virtual CDN services, relying on the developments of the first two use cases. In particular, the goal is to assess the overall vCDN service scalability in cases of different resource demands to preserve the required SLAs.EC approval: 26/07/202