5G Experimentation: The Experience of the Athens 5GENESIS Facility

5G is the latest wireless standard designed to comply with stringent performance requirements for supporting diverse use cases spanning over different verticals, considered not feasible with previous cellular network technology. In this context, the European Commission has funded multiple research projects aiming at validating 5G Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) over large scale field trials on different use cases. The 5GENESIS project provides a flexible and open experimentation suite with network slicing, in order to support and facilitate validation of KPIs over 5G infrastructure. This paper discusses the experimentation framework of the Athens 5GENESIS Facility, presents results on throughput, Round-Trip-Time (RTT) and latency and summarizes the lessons learned from the activities that took place.