Review Article
Small-Scale 5G Testbeds for Network Slicing Deployment: A Systematic Review
Table 2
Comparison of small-scale testbeds for network slicing in 5G, which ✓ denotes supported feature and ✗ denotes unsupported feature.
| | Testbed | SDN | NFV | Cloud comp. | Multi-domain | Multi-tenancy | MANO | Multi-RATs | E2E slicing | Cross-location | ML-enabled | Open-source | MANO type |
| | 1. 5G4IoT [38, 39] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | | 2. 5GTN [40] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (https://5gtn.fi/) | OSM, CloudBand | | 3. SEMIoTICS [41] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (https://www.semiotics-project.eu/) | OpenStack tacker | | 4. Mosaic5G [43] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (http://mosaic5g.io/) | JOX | | 5. Orion [45, 46] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | OSM and a customized orchestrator | | 6. 5G Testbed for NS [47] | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (https://github.com/ashxz47) | ✗ | | 7. POSENS [48, 49] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (https://github.com/wnlUc3m) | Customized OSM | | 8. UPC testbed [50] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | | 9. M-CORD based testbed [52, 53] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (https://nick133371.github.io/) | XOS | | 10. NS for 5G IoT and eMBB [55] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | | 11. Transformable resources slicing testbed [56] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗(E2E slice traverses over RAN, TN and CN.) | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | VLSP, Kubernetes, and OpenStack | | 12. DSAF [58] | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Customized python-based orchestrator | | 13. SliceNet [59] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | OSM, OpenBaton | | 14. IqInf testbed [60] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | | 15. Slice-aware SA testbed [61] | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Service assurance integrated with MANO | | 16. Simula [62, 63] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ (https://github.com/simula/5gvinni-oai-ns) | OSM | | 17. 5GIIK [64, 65] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ (https://bit.ly/3rgOgd6) | OSM | | 18. ONAP based testbed [67] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ONAP | | 19. BlueArch [68] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | Open MANO, RIFT.io | | 20. MEC IoT platform [69, 70] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | OSM | | 21. CAI [71] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ (https://bit.ly/3tXErSX) | ✗ |
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