5G-TRANSFORMER: Slicing and orchestrating transport networks for industry verticals

This article dives into the design of the next generation mobile transport networks to simultaneously support the needs of various vertical industries with diverse range of networking and computing requirements. Network slicing has emerged as the most promising approach to address this challenge by...

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Autores: de la Oliva, A, Li, X, Costa-Perez, X, Bernardos, CJ, Bertin, P, Iovanna, P, Deiss, T, Mangues, J, Mourad, A, Casetti, C, Gonzalez, JE, Azcorra, A
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
Repositorio:r-CTTC. Repositorio Institucional Producción Científica del Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC)
OAI Identifier:oai:cttc.fundanetsuite.com:p1533
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Distributed computer systems
Diverse range
Mobile transport
Network slicing
Service requirements
Transport networks
Virtualized resources
5G mobile communication systems
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Sumario:This article dives into the design of the next generation mobile transport networks to simultaneously support the needs of various vertical industries with diverse range of networking and computing requirements. Network slicing has emerged as the most promising approach to address this challenge by enabling per-slice management of virtualized resources. We aim to bring the network slicing paradigm into mobile transport networks by provisioning and managing slices tailored to the needs of different vertical industries. Our technical approach is twofold: (i) enabling vertical industries to meet their service requirements within customized slices; and (ii) aggregating and federating transport networking and computing fabric, from the edge up to the core and cloud, to create and manage slices throughout a federated virtualized infrastructure. The main focus of the article is on major technical highlights of vertical-oriented slicing mechanisms for 5G mobile networks. © 1979-2012 IEEE.