NANCY

The 5G testbed that is going to be used in this NANCY demonstrator is a 5G deployment in a sports centre located near the premises of the University of the Basque Country. This testbed will include a portable 5G RAN with O-RAN support (including RRU, DU, and CU) that will accommodate the developments of the NANCY project regarding the B-RAN architecture. The UPF and core network will be located on the premises of the University of the Basque Country, where the developments of the NANCY project in regards to intelligent orchestration mechanisms will also be hosted. The 5G network will be SA and also support network slicing.

The testbed will include three mobile vehicle units, with each a 5G module and each a V2X module. V2V communications will be used between vehicles, which will also be able to communicate to the 5G base station thanks to their 5G module. A multi-hop algorithm will be developed using the SDK tools provided by the V2X module vendor and will be included in each vehicle unit. When the vehicle does not have 5G coverage, it will use this multi-hop V2V communication to connect to the grounded infrastructure. Additionally, some computational capabilities are included in one of the vehicles to enable the efficient computational offloading capabilities developed in NANCY.