Performance study of OpenAirInterface 5G System on the Cloud Platform Managed by Juju Orchestration

Abstract

OpenAirInterface (OAI) 5G is an open source-based software that can implement LTE-based telecommunications systems and it’s protocols, it uses the 3GPP standard on a public computer. OpenAirInterface 5G is used to conduct research on the development of 4G to 5G at a lower cost. In this work, we evaluate the concept of Virtual Networks on the OpenAirInterface 5G network by evaluating the performance of our OpenAirInterface 5G system on a cloud platform managed by Juju Orchestration. The cloud platform used is managed by Metal as a Service (MAAS) to help allocate the network infrastructure, both physical and virtual. Juju Orchestration is used to accelerate and automate the deployment and configuration of OpenAirInterface applications on cloud platforms. The performance evaluation is done by testing the bitrate, latency, jitter, streaming performance, and browsing performance. The performance evaluation shows that the performance quality of the OAI cloud is better, although the differences are not significant. Besides that, the OAI cloud still has it’s big advantages in terms of its scalability process for the ease of automation deployment of applications carried out by Juju Orchestration.