Automated deployment and management of differentiated 5G network slices on Edge Cloud

Automated deployment of 5g net slices based on user defined SLOs to multiple clusters controlled by EMCO.

The mission of the project is to ensure end-to-end SLOs for workloads of each tenant independent of other tenants hosted on systems built on top of a shared set of resources including 5G network, and cloud native infrastructure. 

• Management and configuration
  o  Dynamic slice orchestrator, EMCO and K8s extensions to create tenant and enforce tenant/slicing policies
  o Cloud native registration and discovery management
  o Edge Orchestration tenant isolation simplification (Ease of use)
• Service mesh enhancements for multi-tenancy
  o ISTIO/Envoy sharing across tenants, fixing the gaps such as slice/tenant specific CA, Securing CA certificate private keys, slice specific metrics, logs & traces
• RDT Controller & associated enforcement enhancements
  o Slice/tenant specific RDT enforcement
• Network isolation enhancements
  o With and Without CVL
  o Tenant/Slice specific queues, interrupts, and cores for RX/TX processing.
• Security isolation
  o Secured service mesh leveraging SGX/TDX

Workflows and tasks include:

• Dynamic slice orchestrator : accept  SLOs for slices. Deploy through emco and ensure end to end performance isolation of workloads
• EMCO to orchestrate  deployment of slices
• Asociated extensions for performance isolation of slice workloads leveraging and/or extending 

• • slice isolation operator deploying 
  • nodus 
  • multus
  • Ethernet operator
  • SRIOV operator
  • RDT operator
  • slice isolation webhook 
  • custom scheduler
  • ADQ device plugin
  • CVL features
  • CVL
•  CRs to represent needs of networking slicing in K8s and in EMCO.