Next Generation Platform as a Service: Toward Virtualized DVB-RCS2 Decoding System

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud computing services have emerged in the last few years, offering an abstraction framework to enable the development, execution, and management of applications, which is de-coupled from complex infrastructure considerations. The next generation of PaaS solutions (NGPaaS) will have to address more stringent performance requirements compared to traditional PaaSes. They will have to support Telco-specific requirements in terms of resource efficiency, availability, and resilience. According to the 5G promise of convergence between vertical and Telco markets, they will also have to be able to address new use case scenarios. One of the possible scenarios to address could be the combining of Telco and vertical components as digital video broadcasting (DVB). This paper demonstrates how NGPaaS features enable the implementation of 5G-oriented connectivity services in cloud data centers. Regarding the convergence aspect, it aims to demonstrate how NGPaaS features facilitate the build of a combined Telco-broadcasting PaaS system on the cloud where a DVB-RCS2 system is able to bring its own components and integrate them with the connectivity services deployed on the PaaS by a Telco operator. This is achieved by applying specific customizations and enhancements to Kubernetes.