MODERN INFRASTRUCTURE OF COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS: MODELING OF THE METHOD OF «LIVING MIGRATION»

In order to meet data and service requirements, network operators are constantly expanding and improving their network infrastructure, resulting in increased capital and operating costs. However, due to intense competition and falling prices, the average income per user does not increase proportionally, which leads to a decrease in return on investment. Thus, to reduce costs and increase revenue, mobile networks need to make the next evolutionary leap towards 5G, which now applies not only to the mobile border, but also to the core network. The 5G micro-operator service architecture must also be developed together with various technologies such as SDN and NFV. SDN abstracts network architecture by separating network management and redirection functions, allowing network management to become directly programmable and the underlying infrastructure to be abstracted for applications and network services. The interaction between SDN and NFV allows the 5G network to abstractly build the system infrastructure and further increase network flexibility. Therefore, the article substantiates the possibility of market commercialization of the use of technologies of live migration of traffic flow, which allows to give the product unique characteristics. The existing approaches to the solution of the problem of load balancing of the network of 5G micro operators are analyzed. A number of advantages of the live migration method have been identified, namely the possibility of its application for the micro operator's network and efficient use of network resources. According to the results of the experiment, it was found that the method of live migration has better values µO_num (68.1% of traffic flow) than the mechanism of MLF (29.8% of traffic flow). It is proved that the mechanism of live migration can determine the priority of the user traffic flow according to the servers in the zone µO, and therefore it is expedient to apply in terms of optimizing the distribution of traffic flow. The proposed method should increase the utilization of network resources and traffic flow efficiency and lead to a higher level of experience quality (QoE) for network users.

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A Flexible Network Architecture for 5G Systems

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ◽

10.1155/2019/5264012 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2019 ◽

pp. 1-19 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mehrdad Shariat ◽

Ömer Bulakci ◽

Antonio De Domenico ◽

Christian Mannweiler ◽

Marco Gramaglia ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mobile Networks ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Evaluation Studies ◽

Design Guidelines ◽

Core Network ◽

Architecture Model ◽

Definition Of ◽

Management Functions ◽

Control And Management ◽

And Control

In this paper, we define a flexible, adaptable, and programmable architecture for 5G mobile networks, taking into consideration the requirements, KPIs, and the current gaps in the literature, based on three design fundamentals: (i) split of user and control plane, (ii) service-based architecture within the core network (in line with recent industry and standard consensus), and (iii) fully flexible support of E2E slicing via per-domain and cross-domain optimisation, devising inter-slice control and management functions, and refining the behavioural models via experiment-driven optimisation. The proposed architecture model further facilitates the realisation of slices providing specific functionality, such as network resilience, security functions, and network elasticity. The proposed architecture consists of four different layers identified as network layer, controller layer, management and orchestration layer, and service layer. A key contribution of this paper is the definition of the role of each layer, the relationship between layers, and the identification of the required internal modules within each of the layers. In particular, the proposed architecture extends the reference architectures proposed in the Standards Developing Organisations like 3GPP and ETSI, by building on these while addressing several gaps identified within the corresponding baseline models. We additionally present findings, the design guidelines, and evaluation studies on a selected set of key concepts identified to enable flexible cloudification of the protocol stack, adaptive network slicing, and inter-slice control and management.

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A Next-Generation Core Network Architecture for Mobile Networks

Future Internet ◽

10.3390/fi11070152 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (7) ◽

pp. 152 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Andrea G. Forte ◽

Wei Wang ◽

Luca Veltri ◽

Gianluigi Ferrari

Keyword(s):

Mobile Networks ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Mobile Network ◽

Core Network ◽

Voice Call ◽

Telephone System ◽

Air Interface ◽

Network Provider ◽

Cellular Mobile ◽

Cellular Mobile Network

Over the years, the cellular mobile network has evolved from a wireless plain telephone system to a very complex system providing telephone service, Internet connectivity and many interworking capabilities with other networks. Its air interface performance has increased drastically over time, leading to high throughput and low latency. Changes to the core network, however, have been slow and incremental, with increased complexity worsened by the necessity of backwards-compatibility with older-generation systems such as the Global System for Mobile communication (GSM). In this paper, a new virtualized Peer-to-Peer (P2P) core network architecture is presented. The key idea of our approach is that each user is assigned a private virtualized copy of the whole core network. This enables a higher degree of security and novel services that are not possible in today’s architecture. We describe the new architecture, focusing on its main elements, IP addressing, message flows, mobility management, and scalability. Furthermore, we will show some significant advantages this new architecture introduces. Finally, we investigate the performance of our architecture by analyzing voice-call traffic available in a database of a large U.S. cellular network provider.

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The State of the Art of Software Defined Networking (SDN) Issues in Current Network Architecture and a Solution for Network Management Using the SDN

International Journal of Technology Diffusion ◽

10.4018/ijtd.2019070103 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 33-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Emilia Rosa Jimson ◽

Kashif Nisar ◽

Mohd Hanafi Ahmad Hijazi

Keyword(s):

Network Management ◽

Real Time ◽

Network Model ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Limited Resource ◽

Software Defined Networking ◽

Centralized Control ◽

Network Resources ◽

Limited Bandwidth ◽

Network Bandwidth

Software defined networking (SDN) architecture has been verified to make the current network architecture management simpler, and flexible. The key idea of SDN is to simplify network management by introducing a centralized control, through which dynamic updates of forwarding rules, simplification of the network devices task, and flow abstractions can be realized. In this article, the researchers discuss the complex design of the current network architecture, which has inevitably resulted in poor network resources management, such as bandwidth management. SDN-based network model has been proposed to simplify the management of the limited bandwidth of a network. The proposed network model utilizes the limited network bandwidth systematically by giving real-time traffics higher priority than non-real-time traffics to access the limited resource. The experimental results showed that the proposed model helped ensure real-time traffics would be given greater priority to access the limited bandwidth, where major portion of the limited bandwidth being allocated to the real-time traffics.

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Migration Path Towards Cloud-Aware Core Networks

Advances in Systems Analysis, Software Engineering, and High Performance Computing - Communication Infrastructures for Cloud Computing ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-4522-6.ch001 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 1-21

Author(s):

Luis M. Contreras ◽

Víctor López ◽

Óscar González de Dios ◽

Felipe Jiménez ◽

Juan Rodríguez ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Network Architecture ◽

Distribution Networks ◽

Cloud Services ◽

Core Network ◽

Network Resources ◽

Core Networks ◽

On Demand ◽

Elastic Data ◽

Multiple Network ◽

Network Technologies

New services like Cloud Computing and Content Distribution Networks are changing telecom operator infrastructure. The creation of on-demand virtual machines or new services in the cloud reduces the utilization of resources among users but changes traditional static network provisioning. This chapter presents network architecture to deal with this new scenario called “Cloud-Aware Core Network.” A Cloud-Aware Core Network can request on-demand connectivity so the network is configured based on the changing demands. Secondly, the network has to dynamically control the network resources and to take into account cloud information in the network configuration process. The Cloud-Aware Core Network is based on an elastic data and control plane, which can interact with multiple network technologies and cloud services.

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An Efficient 5G Data Plan Approach Based on Partially Distributed Mobility Architecture

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s22010349 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 349

Author(s):

Mohammad Al Shinwan ◽

Laith Abualigah ◽

Trong-Dinh Huy ◽

Ahmed Younes Shdefat ◽

Maryam Altalhi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Mobile Networks ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Core Network ◽

Control Plane ◽

Queuing Delay ◽

Total Transmission ◽

Time Simulation ◽

Control Entity ◽

The Impact ◽

Evolved Packet Core

Reaching a flat network is the main target of future evolved packet core for the 5G mobile networks. The current 4th generation core network is centralized architecture, including Serving Gateway and Packet-data-network Gateway; both act as mobility and IP anchors. However, this architecture suffers from non-optimal routing and intolerable latency due to many control messages. To overcome these challenges, we propose a partially distributed architecture for 5th generation networks, such that the control plane and data plane are fully decoupled. The proposed architecture is based on including a node Multi-session Gateway to merge the mobility and IP anchor gateway functionality. This work presented a control entity with the full implementation of the control plane to achieve an optimal flat network architecture. The impact of the proposed evolved packet Core structure in attachment, data delivery, and mobility procedures is validated through simulation. Several experiments were carried out by using NS-3 simulation to validate the results of the proposed architecture. The Numerical analysis is evaluated in terms of total transmission delay, inter and intra handover delay, queuing delay, and total attachment time. Simulation results show that the proposed architecture performance-enhanced end-to-end latency over the legacy architecture.

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QoS Management and Flexible Traffic Detection Architecture for 5G Mobile Networks

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19061335 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (6) ◽

pp. 1335 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Fernando López Rodríguez ◽

Ugo Silva Dias ◽

Divanilson Campelo ◽

Robson Oliveira Albuquerque ◽

Se-Jung Lim ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Mobile Networks ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Access Networks ◽

Network Function Virtualization ◽

Core Network ◽

Next Generation ◽

Qos Management ◽

Traffic Detection

The next generation of 5G networks is being developed to provide services with the highest Quality of Service (QoS) attributes, such as ultra-low latency, ultra-reliable communication, high data rates, and high user mobility experience. To this end, several new settings must be implemented in the mobile network architecture such as the incorporation of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), along with the shift of processes to the edge of the network. This work proposes an architecture combining the NFV and SDN concepts to provide the logic for Quality of Service (QoS) traffic detection and the logic for QoS management in next-generation mobile networks. It can be applied to the mobile backhaul and the mobile core network to work with both 5G mobile access networks or current 4G access networks, keeping backward compatibility with current mobile devices. In order to manage traffic without QoS and with QoS requirements, this work incorporates Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) in the mobile data plane. A new flexible and programmable method to detect traffic with QoS requirements is also proposed, along with an Evolved Packet System (EPS)-bearer/QoS-flow creation with QoS considering all elements in the path. These goals are achieved by using proactive and reactive path setup methods to route the traffic immediately and simultaneously process it in the search for QoS requirements. Finally, a prototype is presented to prove the benefits and the viability of the proposed concepts.

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A Review on 3GPP 5G Security Aspects

10.34048/acc.2019.2.cf ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Rajavelsamy R ◽

Debabrata Das

Keyword(s):

Network Architecture ◽

Base Station ◽

Cellular Systems ◽

Core Network ◽

User Privacy ◽

Wireless Backhaul ◽

Level Of Use ◽

Unified Authentication ◽

3Rd Generation Partnership Project ◽

5G Security

5G promises to support new level of use cases that will deliver a better user experience. The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) [1] defined 5G system introduced fundamental changes on top of its former cellular systems in several design areas, including security. Unlike in the legacy systems, the 5G architecture design considers Home control enhancements for roaming customer, tight collaboration with the 3rd Party Application servers, Unified Authentication framework to accommodate various category of devices and services, enhanced user privacy, and secured the new service based core network architecture. Further, 3GPP is investigating the enhancements to the 5G security aspects to support longer security key lengths, False Base station detection and wireless backhaul in the Phase-2 of 5G standardization [2]. This paper provides the key enhancements specified by the 3GPP for 5G system, particularly the differences to the 4G system and the rationale behind the decisions.

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An overview of the 5G mobile network architecture

10.34048/2018.3.f1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Phanidra Palagummi ◽

Vedant Somani ◽

Krishna M. Sivalingam ◽

Balaji Venkat

Keyword(s):

Wireless Network ◽

Mobile Networks ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Mobile Network ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Future Generation ◽

Network Function Virtualization ◽

Low Latency ◽

High Bandwidth ◽

Network Technologies

Networking connectivity is increasingly based on wireless network technologies, especially in developing nations where the wired network infrastructure is not accessible to a large segment of the population. Wireless data network technologies based on 2G and 3G are quite common globally; 4G-based deployments are on the rise during the past few years. At the same time, the increasing high-bandwidth and low-latency requirements of mobile applications has propelled the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) standards organization to develop standards for the next generation of mobile networks, based on recent advances in wireless communication technologies. This standard is called the Fifth Generation (5G) wireless network standard. This paper presents a high-level overview of the important architectural components, of the advanced communication technologies, of the advanced networking technologies such as Network Function Virtualization and other important aspects that are part of the 5G network standards. The paper also describes some of the common future generation applications that require low-latency and high-bandwidth communications.

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