PA5Ge - Implementação de uma Rede Celular Privada com Funcionalidades 5G no Campus da UFPA

This article presents the current stage of the implementation of the PA5Ge, which is a mobile network based on functionalities of the fourth (4G) and fifth (5G) generations, licensed for scientific and experimental purposes in the 700 MHz band. The PA5Ge has modern features such as virtualization of network functions (VNFs) and architecture of Centralized Radio Access Network (C-RAN). One of its objectives is to serve as an experimental platform for academic research in 5G and future networks (B5G). Another objective is to generate know-how for the future use of 4G/5G resources on community networks in locations far from urban centers and not served by commercial operators. In this context, the main contribution of the article is the project description and its steps on the implementation of PA5Ge, encompassing licensing aspects to technicians in order to foster similar initiatives to establish platforms for experimental research in 4G/5G and in the scope of humanitarian engineering through telecommunications.