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5G and beyond networks will comprise versatile infrastructures consisting of multiple disaggregated pools of network, compute and storage resources, while network deployments are expected to appear in various (physical/vertical) environments as access network extensions of public networks or as Non-Public-Networks. In many physical/vertical environments, the necessary network deployments may be very dissimilar to the wide area public network ones, raising new deployment challenges. Such cases can be the railway environment or specific deployments along rivers or roads. In these cases, the various network deployment alternatives, in terms of technologies and topologies, shall take into account various factors such as area specifics, technologies’ deployment feasibility, traffic/usage forecasts considering long-term services roadmaps and, certainly, the associated costs. In this context, network planning and dimensioning shall be tightly accompanied by the techno-economic analysis of the various deployment alternatives. This paper provides insights of 5G network deployments at railway environments as retrieved through macroscopic techno-economic analysis and demonstrates their applicability on the architectural concepts of the 5G-PPP 5G-VICTORI project.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme Horizon 2020 under grant agreement No. 857201 and project name “5G-VICTORI - VertIcal demos over Common large scale field Trials fOr Rail, energy and media Industries”.
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Mesogiti, I. et al. (2023). Techno-economic Analysis Highlighting Aspects of 5G Network Deployments at Railway Environments. In: Maglogiannis, I., Iliadis, L., Papaleonidas, A., Chochliouros, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations. AIAI 2023 IFIP WG 12.5 International Workshops. AIAI 2023. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 677. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34171-7_11
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