The 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) was held in Bangalore, India, January 3–8, 2023. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communication Systems. The conference included a highly selective technical program consisting of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster and demo sessions of work in progress. Additionally, focused workshops and panel discussions were held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders were invited to share their perspectives and to complement the technical program.
The paper “A Multi-Tenant System for 5/6G Testbed as-a-Service” by Raffaele Bolla, Roberto Bruschi, Chiara Lombardo, Sergio Mangialardi, Alireza Mohammadpour, Ramin Rabbani and Beatrice Siccardi with acknowledgement to NEPHELE was presented in the TASIR Workshop: Testbeds for Advanced Systems Implementation and Research, that took place in Sunday 8th January 2023.
In order to fulfill the stringent requirements and fast advancements of 5G and beyond applications, it is inevitable to develop research/industrial testbeds to examine the different proposed innovative features of 5G and beyond. In this paper, we proposed a testbed including 5G and beyond technologies by combining open-source solutions and a developed Network Services/Functions to enhance the ETSI-NFV MANO framework. This testbed contains an automation framework to reduce both run time and setup complexity. It provides various services: Metal as a Service (MaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), different Network Functions (NFs), and Network Services (NSs), under the context of full automation of End-to-End (E2E) NSs on top of the services provided by ETSI.