Private 5G: A Systems Approach

The mobile cellular network has its origins in Telco voice networks, but 5G adopts the principles of modern clouds. This book describes how 5G leverages horizontally scalable microservices, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), and cloud operational practices such as DevOps. It provides a detailed introduction to mobile networking that is understandable to a general computing systems audience. Features include:

• Emphasizes underlying concepts, key principles and design choices, going beyond the acronym soup of standards.
• Describes the main open source components used to build a private 5G network and the rationale for their selection.
• Walks through the architecture of 5G from the radio to the mobile core.
• Includes sample code used in configuration and operations of a real private 5G network deployed across a dozen enterprises.

"Private 5G networks are something you can touch, code, and deploy yourself. Armed with the knowledge of how 5G access networks work, and with hands-on experience with open source software, just imagine the places you’ll go!"

– Jennifer Rexford, Princeton

Larry Peterson is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of ComputerScience, Emeritus at Princeton University, where he served as Chairfrom 2003-2009. His research focuses on the design, implementation, and operation of Internet-scale distributed systems, including thewidely used PlanetLab and MeasurementLab platforms. He is currentlycontributing to the Aether access-edge cloud project at the OpenNetworking Foundation (ONF), where he serves as Chief Scientist.Peterson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellowof the ACM and the IEEE, the 2010 recipient of the IEEE KobayashiComputer and Communication Award, and the 2013 recipient of the ACMSIGCOMM Award. He received his Ph.D. degree from Purdue University.

Oguz Sunay is Chief Architect for the Network and Edge Group (NEX)at Intel, which he joined as part of Intel's acquisition of the OpenNetworking Foundation (ONF) engineering team. While at ONF, he wasVice President for Research & Development, where led allmobile-related projects. Before joining ONF, Sunay was the CTO atArgela-USA, where he was the innovator of a Programmable Radio AccessNetwork Architecture (ProgRAN) for 5G that enabled the world's firstdynamically programmable RAN slicing solution. He has also held priorindustry positions at Nokia Research Center and Bell Laboratories, where he focused on 3G and 4G end-to-end systems architectures andparticipated and chaired various standardization activities. Sunay hasalso spent over 10 years in academia, as a Professor of Electrical andComputer Engineering. He holds many U.S. and European patents onvarious aspects of 3G, 4G, and 5G, and has authored numerous journaland conference publications. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. fromQueen's University, Canada, and his B.Sc.Hon. from METU, Turkey.

Bruce Davie is a computer scientist noted for his contributions tothe field of networking. He is a former VP and CTO for the AsiaPacific region at VMware. He joined VMware during the acquisition ofSoftware Defined Networking (SDN) startup Nicira. Prior to that, hewas a Fellow at Cisco Systems, leading a team of architectsresponsible for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS). Davie has over30 years of networking industry experience and has co-authored 17RFCs. He was recognized as an ACM Fellow in 2009 and chaired ACMSIGCOMM from 2009 to 2013. He was also a visiting lecturer at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology for five years. Davie is theauthor of multiple books and the holder of more than 40 U.S. Patents.