Tri5G

“Trimodal” refers both to the transport modes addressed in the project – road, rail and air – and to the potential user groups for the technology under investigation, drawn from academia, industry and public administration.

The Tri5G model region focuses on the research, testing and standardisation of 5G-based services in public mobile networks, tailored to the requirements of industry and public services for both regional and supra-regional logistics applications. The aim is to create a 5G research and testing network in the northern Leipzig region, which is characterised by logistics traffic and automotive production, enabling professional industrial and public sector 5G communication services to be tested and evaluated within a public mobile network infrastructure under real-world conditions.

Tri5G aims to develop a concept to conceptually capture the forward-looking possibilities of 5G technologies, primarily in the automotive industry, express logistics, value-added logistics and local public transport in the vicinity of Leipzig Airport. The aim is to combine 5G use cases from different key users within a unified network to avoid isolated solutions.

Various applications requiring 5G and mobile edge computing technologies will be investigated, and specialised 5G services, as well as the necessary quality-of-service profiles and their implementation in logistics-specific 5G network slices, will be developed. The applications are divided into the categories ‘Connected Driving’, “Automated Drones” and “Tracking, Monitoring, IoT & Maintenance”. The aim of the project is to establish the area north of Leipzig as a pioneering industrial 5G region and to continue using it in future as a large-scale real-world laboratory for research, development and industry. It also aims to provide essential insights into industrial 5G applications for other regions.

The task of the HTWK researchers is to address the requirements for 5G networking and data services, and “Data Services”, to evaluate these across all applications and to identify synergies. On this basis, Quality-of-Service (QoS) profiles will then be created for all relevant/considered Tri5G use cases, implementation strategies will be designed, and suitable network configurations will be derived for the respective test areas and demonstration scenarios. These profiles serve to describe Tri5G network slices and “Tri5G Specialised Industrial Services”. Based on these results, the contracted 5G network operator, in consultation with the consortium, is then to define the necessary network slices for mapping and demonstrating the “Tri5G Specialised Industrial Services” for the applications, test areas, demos and, where applicable, standardisation specified in the “Tri5G Use Cases” work package, and implement them in the Tri5G network for testing purposes.

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