Paper
Toward Experimentation-as-a-Service in 5G/6G: The Plaza6G Prototype for AI-Assisted Trials
Authors
Sergio Barrachina-Muñoz, Marc Carrascosa-Zamacois, Horacio Bleda, Umair Riaz, Yasir Maqsood, Xavier Calle, Selva Vía, Miquel Payaró, Josep Mangues-Bafalluy
Abstract
This paper presents Plaza6G, the first operational Experiment-as-a-Service (ExaS) platform unifying cloud resources with next-generation wireless infrastructure. Developed at CTTC in Barcelona, Plaza6G integrates GPU-accelerated compute clusters, multiple 5G cores, both open-source (e.g., Free5GC) and commercial (e.g., Cumucore), programmable RANs, and physical or emulated user equipment under unified orchestration. In Plaza6G, the experiment design requires minimal expertise as it is expressed in natural language via a web portal or a REST API. The web portal and REST API are enhanced with a Large Language Model (LLM)-based assistant, which employs retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for up-to-date experiment knowledge and Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for continuous domain fine-tuning. Over-the-air (OTA) trials leverage a four-chamber anechoic facility and a dual-site outdoor 5G network operating in sub-6~GHz and mmWave bands. Demonstrations include automated CI/CD integration with sub-ten-minute setup and interactive OTA testing under programmable propagation conditions. Machine-readable experiment descriptors ensure reproducibility, while future work targets policy-aware orchestration, safety validation, and federated testbed integration toward open, reproducible wireless experimentation.
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