Challenges of 5G networking in access and core networks

The 5th Generation wireless and mobile communication is expected to provide ultrahigh data rates over wireless in the range of Gbps. But 5G will also be about providing consistency and supporting Quality of Experience in a personalized manner. We foresee an evolution in terms of physical layer enhancements to provide increased data rates, whereas a revolutionary step is required in terms of network orchestration and management to provide consistency and efficient utilization of the available resources at a minimum cost. In this chapter, key trends in wireless access technologies and thus-required network management strategies with respect to the core network are discussed. In the roadmap towards 5G networks, we envision an evolution of technologies for supporting Gbps wireless transmission, whereas a revolution would be required from the current modus operandi in the ways network orchestration and resource management is performed in these complex, hierarchical, heterogeneous and highly autonomous wireless networks.

[1]  Antonio Capone,et al.  Rethinking cellular system architecture for breaking current energy efficiency limits , 2012, 2012 Sustainable Internet and ICT for Sustainability (SustainIT).

[2]  Wei Xiang,et al.  Radio resource allocation in LTE-advanced cellular networks with M2M communications , 2012, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[3]  Satoshi Nagata,et al.  Trends in small cell enhancements in LTE advanced , 2013, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[4]  Telemaco Melia,et al.  Distributed mobility management: A standards landscape , 2013, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[5]  H. Anthony Chan,et al.  Distributed Mobility Management: Current Practices and Gap Analysis , 2015, RFC.

[6]  Stefan Parkvall,et al.  Evolution of LTE toward IMT-advanced , 2011, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[7]  Vikram Srinivasan,et al.  CloudIQ: a framework for processing base stations in a data center , 2012, Mobicom '12.

[8]  Sampath Rangarajan,et al.  CellSlice: Cellular wireless resource slicing for active RAN sharing , 2013, 2013 Fifth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS).

[9]  Dacheng Yang,et al.  Distributed resource management for Device-to-Device (D2D) communication underlay cellular networks , 2013, 2013 IEEE 24th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC).

[10]  Wha Sook Jeon,et al.  Resource allocation scheme for device-to-device communication for maximizing spatial reuse , 2013, 2013 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).

[11]  Roy D. Yates,et al.  Mobile Network Resource Sharing Options: Performance Comparisons , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[12]  Chen He,et al.  Performance analysis of vertical handover in a UMTS-WLAN integrated network , 2003, 14th IEEE Proceedings on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2003. PIMRC 2003..

[13]  Lazaros F. Merakos,et al.  Mobility Management for Femtocells in LTE-Advanced: Key Aspects and Survey of Handover Decision Algorithms , 2014, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

[14]  Charles E. Perkins,et al.  IP Mobility Support for IPv4, Revised , 2010, RFC.

[15]  Kiyomichi Araki,et al.  Cloud cooperated heterogeneous cellular networks , 2013, 2013 International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems.

[16]  Federico Boccardi,et al.  Downlink and Uplink Decoupling: A disruptive architectural design for 5G networks , 2014, 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference.

[17]  Jean-Marie Bonnin,et al.  Distributed IP mobility management from the perspective of the IETF: motivations, requirements, approaches, comparison, and challenges , 2013, IEEE Wireless Communications.

[18]  Edward W. Knightly,et al.  IEEE 802.11ac: from channelization to multi-user MIMO , 2013, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[19]  Marília Curado,et al.  A mobile QoE Architecture for Heterogeneous Multimedia Wireless Networks , 2012, 2012 IEEE Globecom Workshops.

[20]  Robert W. Heath,et al.  Coverage in dense millimeter wave cellular networks , 2013, 2013 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.

[21]  Wolfgang Hahn.  3GPP Evolved Packet Core support for distributed mobility anchors: Control enhancements for GW relocation , 2011, 2011 11th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications.

[22]  Antonella Molinaro,et al.  Toward 5G densenets: architectural advances for effective machine-type communications over femtocells , 2015, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[23]  Theodore S. Rappaport,et al.  Millimeter Wave Mobile Communications for 5G Cellular: It Will Work! , 2013, IEEE Access.

[24]  Nick McKeown,et al.  OpenFlow: enabling innovation in campus networks , 2008, CCRV.

[25]  Wolfgang Kellerer,et al.  Network sharing in the next mobile network: TCO reduction, management flexibility, and operational independence , 2011, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[26]  Alex Reznik,et al.  Towards flat and distributed mobility management: A 3GPP evolved network design , 2012, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

[27]  Carl Wijting,et al.  Device-to-device communication as an underlay to LTE-advanced networks , 2009, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[28]  Wolfgang Hahn.  Flat 3GPP Evolved Packet Core , 2011, 2011 The 14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC).

[29]  Martín Casado,et al.  NOX: towards an operating system for networks , 2008, CCRV.

[30]  Rui L. Aguiar,et al.  Empowering software defined wireless Networks through Media Independent Handover management , 2013, 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM).

[31]  Dirk Wübben,et al.  Cloud technologies for flexible 5G radio access networks , 2014, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[32]  Tao Guo,et al.  Active LTE RAN Sharing with Partial Resource Reservation , 2013, 2013 IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall).

[33]  G. Sivaradje,et al.  An optimized fast vertical handover strategy for heterogeneous wireless access networks based on IEEE 802.21 media independent handover standard , 2012, 2012 Fourth International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC).

[34]  Nico Bayer,et al.  CloudMAC: torwards software defined WLANs , 2012, Mobicom '12.

[35]  Rose Qingyang Hu,et al.  Anchor-booster based heterogeneous networks with mmWave capable booster cells , 2013, 2013 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps).

[36]  Xavier Hesselbach,et al.  Virtual Network Embedding: A Survey , 2013, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials.

[37]  Sampath Rangarajan,et al.  Radio access network virtualization for future mobile carrier networks , 2013, IEEE Communications Magazine.