Research Activities
Our research activities include initial presentations of opportunities of new technologies, innovation and IPR protection, design and specification, practical prototyping within a comprehensive testbed, qualitative and quantitative evaluations and intuitive demonstrations, algorithms and optimizations, integration and inter-op.
Our projects highly span as time-to-market (from new technologies up to product prototypes), duration and resources involved both for direct projects as well as for projects with a large number of partners. We are actively searching for project partners for a large number of research topics based on the set presented under Research Directions. For more information and collaboration opportunities please contact us via contact form.
Licensing Options
Open5GCore is available under a paid licensing model.
- The most common and best flexibility model is that of source code license for internal use.
- Also lower cost binary-only options are available.
- On the upper range, Open5GCore modules code may be licensed even for inclusion within commercial products.
For more information, prices, as well as a customized offer including all the licensing terms, please contact us with your requirements via email. The Open5GCore team is also offering coaching, training, tutorials on 5G and LTE as well as support for local deployment and integration activities.
When you require additional equipment, such as 5G gNBs or 4G eNBs, suitable mobile phone and/or modems as well as SIM/USIM/ISIM/CSIM cards, we would be happy to assist you towards building your comprehensive testbed. Best-effort support for using the software is offered with each license and additional technical support bundles are available upon request. Additional features, components or extensions of reference points can be developed under the umbrella of defined R&D projects with Fraunhofer FOKUS.
Use Case Customization
For each of the Open5GCore licenses, a set of best-practice configurations is provided, enabling the immediate and intuitive demonstrations and practical know-how accumulation. For assessing other implementation architectures, the configuration can be further customized based on the documentation companion.
To further develop your ideas, components, architecture and solutions, targeting the 5G ecosystem, Open5GCore source code is designed to be easily extended with new interfaces, protocols, parameters for the parameters, state machines and policy based decisions.
Additionally, Open5GCore follows a full modular design, while completely implementing the main standard functionality for the different protocols, interfaces and components, thus being a suitable counterpart in realizing a complete testing environment for the development of new prototypes and products or for realizing comprehensive testbeds by integrating only a part of the overall components.
Of course, we offer our licensing customers and partners prototyping and integration services for new 5G network related functionalities. Please get in contact with us via email to define extensions that you would like to evaluate with our help.
Consultancy Activities / Benchmarking
For industry acceptance of the 5G technologies, apart from the development of the technology itself, there is a strong need for creating a high level of trust. With our very large experience and market orientation into developing new technologies with practical applicability, we are able to provide the following consultancy services as an addition to the basic research activities:
- Development of methodologies for assessing in the appropriate environment of the new 5G ecosystem including the definition of metrics and benchmarks, certifying the quality of a specific solution
- End-to-end benchmarking of specific solutions on top of different hardware platforms, with different software configurations and with the most appropriate mobility and load patterns
- Development of comprehensive evaluation frameworks, proving the specific value added of a solution from an independent evaluator
- Integration of the given prototypes, components or solutions within a complete ecosystem (provided by Open5GCore) in order to be able to perform the end-to-end benchmarking
- Future-proof evaluations for products and solutions, for reducing the investment on updates and increasing the runtime duration for specific solutions
- Technology adoption roadmaps and integration with legacy
Tutorials and Training
For providing a speed-up on the new 5G technologies, we are offering an extended set of tutorials and training sessions, customized to your expectations, including intuitive introductions into technology and the analysis of its acceptance from a market and a standardization. Apart from this, hands-on sessions on how to install, customize, understand and further extend the source code.