Publication: Innovations through 5G-Crosshaul applications
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2016-06
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A transport network for 5G envisions integrating the fronthaul and backhaul segments (namely 5G-Crosshaul) into a single transport network. This requires a fully integrated and unified management of fronthaul and backhaul resources in a sharable, scalable and flexible way. The integrated and unified management of the transport network resources follows the Software Defined Networking (SDN) principles of centralization, decoupling between control and data plane and application ecosystem. Innovation to enable context-aware resource management and to provide system-wide optimization of QoS, as well as energy related objectives, lies on defining key applications as logical decision entities to program the underlying network and packet forwarding behaviour. This paper presents a set of 5G-Crosshaul SDN applications with the scope of (i) managing the 5G-Crosshaul resources, including not only network but also computing and storage resources, and (ii) offering efficient media distribution and traffic offloading solutions. In order to develop these applications in a real system, we identify the interactions between the applications and the control plane. Based on these interactions, we propose a two-layer application plane and specify the requirements of the applications on the Northbound Interface (NBI) of the control plane.
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Proceeding of: 2016 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 27-30 junio 2016 Athens, Greece
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Fronthaul, Backhaul, Resource Managment, SDN/NFV, Optimization, Northbound Interface (NBI)
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Innovations through 5G-Crosshaul applications. EuCNC 2016, "The dawn of 5G", Papers (of the) European Conference on Networks and Communications, 27-30 June 2016, Athens, Greece. IEEE, Pp. 1-6