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5G, SDN and MBH presentation held by Glenn Parssons (System Developer, Network Architecture, Ericsson) at GEN14 event.

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Wide range of
Requirements &
Characteristics
Affordable and sustainable
Massive growth in
Traffic Volume
Massive growth in
Connected Devices
• Data rates
• Latency
• Reliability
• Energy performance
• Cost
• .....
Key Challenges

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5G network architecture
5G radio access
Common 5G core functionality
Legacy RATs
Fixed access
Common
management
and transport
Controller
VNF-1 VNF-2
Virtualization Layer / PaaS
VNF-3
Hardware Layer
Services
Access DC
Content
Processing
Connectivity
Network
Network integrated
services
Network enablers
and optimizations
Common network
functionality
3rd party
deployment
Optimized
Scenario
Network
Slice
Service centric Flexible deployment Common toolbox NFV SDN
3 GHz 10 GHz 30 GHz 100 GHz
5G “cellular” access
5G “mmW” access
One network

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abstraction and granularity
“Slim Waist”
SDN control implements abstraction
Data
Center
Wide Area
Networking
Service
Chaining
Optical
IP
Ethernet
MPLS
“Future”
Tenants can program networks
Multitude of technologies can be
controlled easier
Granularity requirements
“Future”
SDN control

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5G Programmable transport
use cases
Network sharing
Flexible service
provisioning
Dynamic resource
allocation
Support wide range of performance
requirements
Flexible service
provisioning
Protection
switching
Efficient use of resources
Dynamic energy
management
UDN
UDN Small cell transport
UDN
UDN
Dynamicity in
building
Dynamicity in
access rings
sleep
sleep
Coverage
AP
Coverage AP
Building
Metro Ring
Edge
Access ring
Metro Ring
Edge
Access Ring
Example:
› Dynamic allocation of
transport resources and
dynamic energy
management
› Addressing regional or
more local dynamicity in
traffic
Re-allocate resources
Re-allocate resources

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LTE - dynamic load balancing
Service Orchestration
Metro
TNC
Access Metro
Metro
RR
Metro
Edge
Access
Access
CPE
Metro
TNC
Problem:
Non-transient link
degradation (e.g., due to rain
fading):
• 500 Mbps -> 100 Mbps
• Send TE notification
Mitigation:
• Redirect 400 Mbps
PCEP
Openflow
I2RS
Mitigation steps:
• Analyze current load and
impact on SLAs
• Build & calculate impact of
new traffic paths
• Send instructions to
forwards traffic on new paths
TE update TE update
TE update
3G/LTE
3G/LTE
3G/LTE

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Service Orchestration
Metro
TNC
Access Metro
Metro
RR
Metro
Edge
Access
Access
LTE - Transport aware radio
3G/LTE
3G/LTE
Problem:
• X2 makes sense for handover,
but transport network is
congested
• X2 would actually degrade
performance, creating more
congestion and wasting radio
resources
Mitigation:
• eNB checks with TNC for any
possible path
• PM measurements to
check latency
• BW constraints checked
• Resolution given to
network
• If no resolution found,
eNB does not use X2
x
“X2 please”

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Emerging Radio Technologies that are mmWave communications, Massive MIMO, Novel Waveforms and Multiple Access techniques etc. will provide ultra-high data rate traffic per user. However, only new Radio techniques implemented in lower layers of legacy networks could not guarantee the all 5G requirements, consequently the new network architecture along with new Radio technologies will emerge to fulfill all 5G requirements.

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