Overbooking Network Slices End-to-End: Implementation and Demonstration

The novel network slicing paradigm allows service providers to open their infrastructure to new business players such as vertical industries. In this demo, we showcase the benefits of our proposed end-to-end network slicing orchestration solution that blends together i) an admission control engine able to handle heterogeneous network slice requests, ii) a resource allocation solution across multiple network domains: radio access, edge, transport and core networks and iii) a monitoring, forecasting and dynamic configuration solution that maximizes the statistical multiplexing of network slices resources. Our orchestration solution is operated through a dashboard that allows requesting network slices on-demand, monitors their performance once deployed and displays the achieved multiplexing gain through overbooking.

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