Title
Customization and Trade-offs in 5G RAN Slicing
Abstract
The heterogeneity of the requirements for 5G necessitate a versatile 5G radio access network (RAN); slicing offers a way of realizing a flexible RAN through customized virtual subnetworks. In this article, we focus on how enabling lower-layer flexibility in the RAN affects the development of RAN slicing, particularly in relation to ensuring isolation between RAN slices. We first examine how RAN slices may be individually tailored for different services. We follow this up with an examination of the potential time-frequency resource structure of the RAN, focusing on the trade-off between flexibility and the overhead related to ensuring coexistence between contrasting RAN slices. Based on this analysis, we suggest an approach that permits the allocation of resources to a service-type to be performed separately to resource allocation for individual services belonging to that type.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/MCOM.2019.1800360
IEEE Communications Magazine
Keywords
Field
DocType
5G mobile communication,Time-frequency analysis,Radio access networks,Interference,Channel estimation,Coherence,OFDM
Computer science,Slicing,Computer network,Resource allocation,Trade offs,Interference (wave propagation),Ran,Radio access network,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,Personalization,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
57
4
0163-6804
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Conor Sexton110.37
Nicola Marchetti219233.90
Luiz A. DaSilva392.74