An Experimental 5G Testbed for Secure Network Slicing Evaluation

Abstract

Network slicing is a key feature of 5G that enables network operators to physically segregate traffic on different radio networks, slice a single network, or combine the capacity of multiple networks and slice the pooled resources. In this paper, we study the network slice-related emergence topics such as slice orchestration, resource federation, and network slice trust and security. Moreover, we introduce our new 5G testbed that helps researchers and students to showcase, test, and validate their 5G services, prototypes, and algorithms on. We test and validate the testbed using two real-time experiments namely (1) Monitoring the violations of the SLA for different performance metrics such as CPU, memory utilization, and network bandwidth, and (2) red team/blue team exercise using Metasploit, Ksniff, and Snort.