Adaptive Network Slicing in Multi-Tenant 5G IoT Networks

IEEE Access

Jorge Bernal Bernabe¹  Antonio Matencio Escolar²  Jose M. Alcaraz-Calero²  Qi Wang²  Pablo Salva-Garcia² 

[1] Department of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain;School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley, U.K;

关键词: 5G;    Internet of Things (IoT);    network management;    network slicing;    quality of service (QoS);    software defined networks (SDN);   

DOI  :  10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3051940

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Fifth Generation (5G) mobile networking coupled with Internet of Things (IoT) can provide innovative solutions for a wide range of uses cases. The flexibility of virtualized, softwarized and multi-tenant infrastructures and the high performance promised by 5G technology are key to cope with the deployment of the IoT use cases demanded by various vertical businesses. Such 5G IoT use cases incur challenging Quality of Service (QoS) requirements especially connectivity for millions of IoT devices to achieve massive Machine-Type Communication (mMTC). In addition, network slicing is a key enabling technology in 5G multi-tenant networks to create logical virtualized networks for delivering customised solutions to meet diverse QoS requirements. This work presents a 5G IoT framework with network slicing capabilities able to manage a vast number of heterogeneous IoT network slices dynamically on demand. The proposed solution has been empirically tested and validated in five realistic vertical-oriented IoT use cases. The achieved results demonstrate a excellent stability, isolation and scalability while being able to meet extreme QoS requirements even in the most congested and stressful scenarios.

【 授权许可】

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