RT Conference Proceedings T1 Service Orchestration and Federation for Verticals A1 Li, Xi A1 Mangues-Bafalluy, Josep A1 Pascual, Iñaki A1 Landi, Giada A1 Moscatelli, Francesca A1 Valcarenghi, Luca A1 Martini, Barbara A1 Antevski, Kiril A1 Bernardos Cano, Carlos Jesús A1 Chiasserini, Carla Fabiana A1 Casetti, Claudio A1 Andrushko, Dmitriy A1 Serrano, Nicolás A. A1 Ksentini, Adlen AB The next generation mobile transport networks shall transform into flexible and agile SDN/NFV-based transport and computing platforms, capable of simultaneously supporting the needs of different vertical industries, e.g., automotive, e-health and media, by meeting a diverse range of networking and computing requirements. Network slicing, has emerged as the most promising approach to address this challenge by enabling per-slice management of virtualized resources and provisioning and managing slices tailored to the needs of different vertical industries. Service orchestration is the key enabler for slicing that allows efficient placement of virtual network functions over the infrastructure as well as optimal allocation of virtual resources among all network slices to deliver guaranteed, reliable and scalable services of different verticals. Besides, due to the limited footprint of infrastructure operators, it is also required to enable the interconnection and federation of multiple administrative domains, to effectively allow services to span across several providers. This paper presents the design of Service Orchestrator (SO) in the 5G- TRANSFORMER system, which deals with service orchestration and federation across multiple domains. PB IEEE SN 978-1-5386-1154-8 SN 978-1-5386-1155-5 (PoD) YR 2018 FD 2018-05-31 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27125 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27125 LA eng NO This work has been partially funded by the EU H2020 5G-TRANSFORMER Project (grant no. 761536) DS e-Archivo RD 27 jul. 2024