| 5G Playground | Germany, Berlin | Fraunhofer FOKUS | 5G playground encompasses a comprehensive, highly customizable and re-configurable network environment, based on commercially available components and the Fraunhofer own toolkits | 5GPlayground.org |
| Imaginlab | | | It is an open platform thought for interoperability tests in fixed and mobile networks | N/A |
| Com4innov | | | It is a consortium providing the framework for testing solutions and services on next generation networks and technologies, including M2M applications | http://www.com4innov.com |
| 5G haus | Germany | Deutsche Telekom | DT has set-up a European wide program for the coordination, planning, and carrying out of 5G related experiments, tests, and field trials. | https://www.telekom.com/5ghaus |
| 5G Center for Innovative Networks | Turkey | NETAS | 5GNET based in Istanbul focuses on wireless access technologies and performs combined functionalities with a wide function equipped laboratory and venture capital. | N/A |
| 5G-EmPOWER testbed | Italy | Create-Net | 5G-EmPOWER developed by Create-Net is a unique and open toolkit for SDN/NFV research and experimentation over wireless and mobile networks. | https://github.com/5g-empower/5g-empower.github.io/wiki/Overview |
| Network Implementation Testbed using Open Source platforms - NITOS | Greece | University of Thessaly | It is a remotely accessible and configurable testbed established through the EU Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) initiative. The testbed is equipped with cutting edge fully programmable networking equipment (LTE-A, LTE, WiMAX, WiFi, ZigBee, Software Defined Radio equipment, hardware OpenFlow switches, Cloud Computing infrastructure). | http://nitlab.inf.uth.gr/NITlab/index.php/nitos.html |
| iMinds | Belgium | University of Ghent | iLab.t technical testing offers access to the hardware, measurement equipment, user-friendly software tools and professional technical expertise needed to efficiently prototype, develop, and test innovative ICT innovations. | http://ilabt.iminds.be/homelab |
| EHU-OEF | Spain | University of the Basque Country | The OpenFlow Enabled Facility is one of the oldest OpenFlow based facilities that is currently being used both on production and for research activities. | http://i2t.ehu.es/resources/ehu-oef |
| 5G Wireless Innovation Center, Argela | Turkey | Istanbul | 5GWiN based in Istanbul and Silicon Valley focuses on software defined future radio access technologies. Current projects listed as ULAK to develop 4G base station, short and long range Small Cell, programmable C-RAN. | http://www.ttinvestorrelations.com/turk-telekom-group/group-companies/argela.aspx |
| OneLab | France | UPMC | The OneLab facility provides single entry point for federated infrastructures, a common API and a Portal to browse and reserve resources of different technologies, from Wireless or IoT based to Cloud based like OpenStack or distributed at a global scale on Internet. | https://www.onelab.eu |
| KU Leuven Networked Systems | Belgium | KU Leuven | The test facility consists of 45 FPGA-enabled software radios (90 antennas) that can be configured in various ways to explore the benefits of many networking architectures relevant to 5G and beyond. | https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/telemic/research/NetworkedSystems |
| SICS ICE | Sweden | SICS North | It is a full scale datacenter testlab planned to be built in 2 phases at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden, campus. First phase is operational. Consists of compute pods with 200 servers, 3600 cores, 4 TB RAM, up to 7 petabytes hard disk. | https://www.sics.se/media/news/sics-ice-data-center-in-lulea |
| OpenSAND | France | CNES | It is an user-friendly and efficient tool to emulate satellite communication systems, mainly DVBS2/RCS2. | http://opensand.org |
| i2CAT's OpenFlow-enabled islands | Spain | i2CAT | The I2CAT Island’s main objective, as part of the OFELIA facility, was to address the need to test and evaluate innovative solutions and ideas in real network environments, in addition to simulations or laboratory setups. | http://www.fed4fire.eu/i2cat-ofelia |
| WST - Wireless Actuator and Sensor Network Testbed | Italy | Univ. of Parma | The main objective of the WASN Lab Testbed is to create an innovative Internet of Things experimental environment. | N/A |
| Future Networks Innovation Lab | Italy | Italtel | The facility is aimed to the application of the NFV and SDN concepts for improving multimedia real time communications and M2M/IoT services. | N/A |
| 5GIC campus testbed | UK | Univ. of Surrey | The main objective of the 5GIC testbed is to facilitate experimentation of algorithms, techniques and novel concepts for the future 5G wireless system; the test facility will allow testing of all aspects of a future system in a real-life network deployment. | http://www.surrey.ac.uk/5gic |
| VirNet@Unibo - Cloud Virtual Networking and SDN Experimental Facility | Italy | University of Bologna | The primary goal of VirNet@Unibo is to provide a platform to test and analyse architectures to provide networking services in a virtual environment in the cloud. | N/A |
| Computer and Communication Systems laboratory | Greek islands | CCSL | CCSL has installed a Remote EMF Monitoring System (REMS) in the majority of Greek islands in order to monitor the level of electromagnetic radiation as well as the occupancy of licensed and unlicensed wireless spectrum bands. | http://samosweb.aegean.gr/ccsl |
| UoP's Association to Experimental Facilities | Greece | Univ. of Peloponnese | The objective of the facility is to integrate and experimentally validate novel as well as legacy access network solutions with respect to their ability to support heterogeneous LAN/last-mile systems in the access. | N/A |
| CARMEN - A Cognition Network Testbed | Italy | Univ. of Padova | CARMEN is to build a flexible testbed that makes it possible to observe and act upon both in-stack and out-stack parameters, i.e., both on the communication protocols and the device sensorial peripherals. | N/A |
| Experimental Facilities for Optical Wireless Trials towards 5G | Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, UK | Fraunhofer HHI, Czech Technical University, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Univ. of Edinborough | It is proposed to use optical wireless to accelerate implementation, test and validation in particular of advanced 5G interference management techniques. | N/A |
| DIWINE-Dense Cooperative Wireless Cloud Networks | UK | Univ. of York | This testbed is currently under development within the DIWINE project funded by the EU FP7 framework, with some interim implementation showing proof-of-concept already available. | N/A |
| VISTA-Virtual Road Simulation and Test Facility | Germany | Technical Univ. Ilmenau | The objectives of VISTA are the characterization and test of automotive communication systems and antennas with a special focus on Over the Air and MIMO measurement techniques. | N/A |
| AMAZING-Advanced Mobile wIreless Network playground | Portugal | Univ. of Aveiro | Free access wireless testbed composed by 24 fixed nodes located at the rooftop of Instituto de Telecomunicações – Aveiro, complemented with 50 additional mobile devices which can roam freely. | http://amazing.atnog.av.it.pt |
| CTTC 5G end-to-end experimental platform | Spain | CTTC | The existing experimental facilities cover complementary technologies from terminals, sensors and machines to radio access networks, aggregation/core networks, and cloud/fog computing. | N/A |
| 5G Experimental Facilities | UK | University of Bristol | The facility aims to create a unique, fully flexible, programmable and open experimental platform for all networks and IT technologies. | N/A |
| Wireless Networking Laboratory | Finland | University of Oulu | The WNL is intended to become an important infrastructure for enabling real-life testing of the existing and perspective radio and optical wireless communication technologies for 5G (WMAN, WLAN, WPAN/WBAN, VLC), their interoperability and ways of integration, and experimental characterization of the physical communication channels. | http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/wnl |
| PerformNetworks | Spain | University of Málaga | PerformNetworks (formerly PerformLTE) is a testbed integrated in the Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) EU initiative, designed to offer a realistic environment to allow controlled and automatic experimentation in LTE, LTE-A and beyond networks. | N/A |