TY - GEN
T1 - Refactoring Future Residential Networks into Slices
AU - Challa, Rajesh
AU - Raza, Syed M.
AU - Jeon, Seil
AU - Choo, Hyunseung
AU - Thorat, Pankaj
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/11
Y1 - 2018/11
N2 - 5G cellular architectures and evolving standards are designed over the network slicing paradigm to fulfill 5G use cases and achieve fixed-mobile convergence. However, Broadband Forum (BBF) driven residential network (RN) is still far from this evolution. Furthermore, the current organization of RN elements makes it rather challenging to embrace network slicing. In this paper, we envisage the BBF-driven future RNs through the lens of network slicing by refactoring its network elements. On top of that, we propose a slice admission control function (SACF) that admits incoming flow requests to appropriate device and service slices. The SACF slice selection criteria and mechanism to pick an appropriate slice is thoroughly discussed. To support the notion of separation of concerns design principle, we propose service orchestration as an upper-level management layer over NFV orchestration. Finally, the ongoing prototype implementation of SACF on Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) is explored.
AB - 5G cellular architectures and evolving standards are designed over the network slicing paradigm to fulfill 5G use cases and achieve fixed-mobile convergence. However, Broadband Forum (BBF) driven residential network (RN) is still far from this evolution. Furthermore, the current organization of RN elements makes it rather challenging to embrace network slicing. In this paper, we envisage the BBF-driven future RNs through the lens of network slicing by refactoring its network elements. On top of that, we propose a slice admission control function (SACF) that admits incoming flow requests to appropriate device and service slices. The SACF slice selection criteria and mechanism to pick an appropriate slice is thoroughly discussed. To support the notion of separation of concerns design principle, we propose service orchestration as an upper-level management layer over NFV orchestration. Finally, the ongoing prototype implementation of SACF on Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) is explored.
KW - CORD
KW - network function virtualization
KW - network slicing
KW - Residential networks
KW - slice admission control function
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85067574827
U2 - 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2018.8725676
DO - 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2018.8725676
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067574827
T3 - 2018 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, NFV-SDN 2018
BT - 2018 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, NFV-SDN 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks, NFV-SDN 2018
Y2 - 27 November 2018 through 29 November 2018
ER -