학술논문

RAN slicing for multi-tenancy support in a WLAN scenario
Document Type
Conference
Source
2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2017 IEEE Conference on. :1-2 Jul, 2017
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
Virtual machine monitors
Virtualization
Wireless LAN
Network function virtualization
Resource management
Software defined networking
Tools
SDN-NFV
Hypervisor
RAN slicing
5G-EmPOWER testbed
Language
Abstract
Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing is a key technology, based on Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), which aims at providing a more efficient utilization of the available network resources and the reduction of the operational costs. On that respect, in this demo a Wireless LAN hypervisor is presented that is based on a time variant scheduling mechanism and that is able to follow the dynamicity of the traffic variations seen by the different tenants in the network Access Points (APs). The work builds upon the 5G-EmPOWER tool kit, which is provided with SDN and NFV capabilities. During this demo it will be shown that the proposed hypervisor is able to dynamically assign, in every AP of the network, the appropriate resources per tenant according to their traffic requirements.