The 5G Public-Private Partnership (5G PPP) has a number of projects under way and among the more interesting of those is one on superfluidity.
Superfluidity refers to “a state in which matter behaves like a fluid with zero viscosity” and the project aims at achieving superfluidity in a 5G network.
Essentially that would make it cloud-based, allowing services to be launched instantly and run anywhere in the network. These services could then also be shifted transparently to different locations, so they’re always available whenever and wherever they’re needed and at any scale.
This virtual network would be distributed across the whole of the 5G network, from the mobile edge and core up to the data centres.
With the vast number of people and devices making use of 5G in different places, the huge number of potential use cases and variable traffic it’s vital that any 5G network is flexible and scalable and superfluidity could help with that.
The Superfluidity Project is set to run until the end of 2017 and there are a number of high profile companies involved, including NEC, Citrix, Intel and more, with 18 participants in all.
If successful the Superfluidity Project will provide a converged cloud-based 5G concept and allow for innovative use cases in mobile, as well as reducing investment and operational costs and enabling new business models.
According to the 5G PPP it will also allow the 5G network to benefit from network services that are deployable in heterogeneous networks, giving it location-independence.
As well as near instantaneous deployment and migration of services, giving it time-independence. Transparent service scalability, giving it scale-independence and development and deployment of services with high performance irrespective of the underlying hardware, giving it hardware-independence.
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