RAN Runtime Slicing System for Flexible and Dynamic Service Execution Environment

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 6; pp. 34018 - 34042
• Main Authors: Chang, Chia-Yu, Nikaein, Navid
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 01.01.2018; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: 3GPP; 5G mobile communication; Computer architecture; Customization; multi-service function chaining; Network slicing; Radio access networks; RAN slicing; RAN virtualization; Resource management; Runtime; service-oriented architecture

Network slicing is one key enabler to provide the required flexibility and to realize the service-oriented 5G vision. Unlike the core network slicing, radio access network (RAN) slicing is still at its infancy and several works just start to investigate the challenges and potentials to enable the mu...