Title
Real-time Dynamic Network Slicing for the 5G Radio Access Network
Abstract
The 5G networks are expected to satisfy diverse use cases and business models with significant advancements in terms of capacity, reliability, and latency. The allocation and provisioning of network resources pose a challenge for this novel architecture to guarantee higher flexibility and quality of service. As a potential enabler, network slicing was proposed as an innovative approach for the control of the network resources. Although a static slicing approach can be suitable for the transport and core network, the stochastic behavior of the wireless channel requires fast and secure slicing techniques for resource allocation. In this paper, we propose a dynamic slicing approach for the radio access network, where the network resources are carefully assigned to guarantee the service level agreements and increase the number of served users. To prove the performance of our approach, we implemented a fronthaul testbed to emphasize the strength of our method in terms of throughput and resource utilization, compared to static slicing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9013965
IEEE Global Communications Conference
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
5G network,RAN slicing,Software-defined Network,Software-defined Radio,LTE,virtualization
Conference
2334-0983
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Massimiliano Maule100.34
Prodromos-Vasileios Mekikis21109.67
Kostas Ramantas3369.33
J. S. Vardakas49817.23
Christos V. Verikoukis51348115.34