TY - GEN
T1 - Euwireless RAN architecture and slicing framework for virtual testbeds
AU - Pinola, Jarno
AU - Harjula, Ilkka
AU - Flizikowski, Adam
AU - Safianowska, Maria
AU - Ahmad, Arslan
AU - Mhatre, Suvidha Sudhakar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ICST Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering 2020 Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. All Rights Reserved.
PY - 2020/3/5
Y1 - 2020/3/5
N2 - The most recent evolutionary steps in the development of mobile communication network architectures have introduced the concepts of virtualisation and slicing also into the Radio Access Network (RAN) part of the overall infrastructure. This trend has made RANs more flexible than ever before, facilitating resource sharing concepts which go far beyond the traditional infrastructure and RAN sharing schemes between commercial Mobile Network Operators (MNO). This paper introduces the EuWireless concept for a pan-European mobile network operator for research and presents its vision for RAN slicing and network resource sharing between the infrastructures of the EuWireless operator, commercial MNOs and research organisations around Europe. The EuWireless approach is to offer virtual large-scale testbeds, i.e., EuWireless experimentation slices, to European mobile network researchers by combining the experimental technologies from the local small-scale research testbeds with the commercial MNO resources such as licensed spectrum. The combined resources are configured and managed through the distributed EuWireless architecture based on inter-connected local installations, so-called Points of Presences (PoP).
AB - The most recent evolutionary steps in the development of mobile communication network architectures have introduced the concepts of virtualisation and slicing also into the Radio Access Network (RAN) part of the overall infrastructure. This trend has made RANs more flexible than ever before, facilitating resource sharing concepts which go far beyond the traditional infrastructure and RAN sharing schemes between commercial Mobile Network Operators (MNO). This paper introduces the EuWireless concept for a pan-European mobile network operator for research and presents its vision for RAN slicing and network resource sharing between the infrastructures of the EuWireless operator, commercial MNOs and research organisations around Europe. The EuWireless approach is to offer virtual large-scale testbeds, i.e., EuWireless experimentation slices, to European mobile network researchers by combining the experimental technologies from the local small-scale research testbeds with the commercial MNO resources such as licensed spectrum. The combined resources are configured and managed through the distributed EuWireless architecture based on inter-connected local installations, so-called Points of Presences (PoP).
KW - Network resource sharing
KW - Radio access network
KW - Slicing
KW - Virtual testbed
KW - Virtualisation
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85082293554
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-43215-7_10
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-43215-7_10
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85082293554
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 131
EP - 149
BT - Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communications - 14th EAI International Conference, TridentCom 2019, Proceedings
A2 - Gao, Honghao
A2 - Li, Kuang
A2 - Yang, Xiaoxian
A2 - Yin, Yuyu
PB - Springer
T2 - 14th EAI International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communications, TridentCom 2019
Y2 - 7 December 2019 through 8 December 2019
ER -