Paper Info
Title
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications in Software-defined and Virtualized Cellular Networks.
Abstract
Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications have attracted great attention from both academia and industry. In this paper, with recent advances in wireless network virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN), we propose a novel framework for M2M communications in software-defined cellular networks with wireless network virtualization. In the proposed framework, according to different functions and quality of service (QoS) requirements of machine-type communication devices (MTCDs), a hypervisor enables the virtualization of the physical M2M network, which is abstracted and sliced into multiple virtual M2M networks. In addition, we develop a decision-theoretic approach to optimize the random access process of M2M communications. Furthermore, we develop a feedback and control loop to dynamically adjust the number of resource blocks (RBs) that are used in the random access phase in a virtual M2M network by the SDN controller. Extensive simulation results with different system parameters are presented to show the performance of the proposed scheme.
Year
Venue
Field
2016
arXiv: Networking and Internet Architecture
Virtualization,Machine to machine,Control theory,Computer science,Computer network,Quality of service,Hypervisor,Software,Cellular network,Distributed computing,Random access
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1611.08725
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Meng Li19222.75
Fei Yu25116335.58
Pengbo Si318625.23
Enchang Sun4218.33
Yanhua Zhang523.75
Haipeng Yao623327.25