authors
- LI, XI
- CASELLAS, RAMÓN
- LANDI, GIADA
- OLIVA DELGADO, ANTONIO DE LA
- COSTA PÉREZ, XAVIER
- GARCIA SAAVEDRA, ANDRES
- DEISS, THOMAS
- COMINARDI, LUCA
- VILALTA, RICARD
5G-Crosshaul Network Slicing: Enabling Multi-Tenancy in Mobile Transport Networks
Articles
Overview
published in
- IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE Journal
publication date
- August 2017
start page
- 128
end page
- 137
issue
- 8
volume
- 55
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
- 0163-6804
Electronic International Standard Serial Number (EISSN)
- 1558-1896
abstract
- 5G requires a redesign of transport networks in order to feed the increasingly bandwidth hungry radio access networks and to benefit from the performance/cost efficiency provided by the integration of both backhaul and fronthaul segments over the same transport substrate as well as the incorporation of cloud RAN architectures. In addition, to increase its usage and cost efficiency, this new transport network should allow simultaneous use by different tenants (e.g. MVNOs, OTTs, and vertical industries). This article presents the 5G transport network architecture designed in the 5G-Crosshaul project to address this challenge. An SDN/NFV-based control plane has been designed that enables multi-tenancy through network slicing. The proposed solution allows for flexible and efficient allocation of transport network resources (networking and computing) to multiple tenants by leveraging on widespread architectural frameworks for NFV (ETSI NFV) and SDN (e.g., Open Daylight and ONOS).