An Autonomous Service-Oriented Orchestration Framework for Software Defined Mobile Networks

Xuan Thuy Dang, Manzoor Ahmed Khan, Fikret Sivrikaya

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Abstract

5G network evolution results in new challenges for mobile network management and orchestration. The emerging SDN and NFV technologies are transforming the network infrastructure and network service components into compositions of programmable virtualized functions. The resulting flexibility allows the network to be conceived as services, which are aware of vertical application QoS/QoE requirements. While most recent works focus on flexible network control and improved resource utilization in emerging mobile network architectures, an end-to-end orchestration of both network infrastructure and vertical application is not adequately explored. In this work, we identify the challenges and propose a service oriented framework for application-aware end-to-end mobile network orchestration. We also present a prototypical realization of the proposed framework, which is an orchestration platform for virtualized mobile networks. To address the challenges of multi-stakeholder and multi-layer mobile network architecture, we employ event calculus for modeling the network layers, and abductive reasoning approach for autonomous policy translation and service provisioning in a 2-phase algorithm. The framework is validated with a 5G enhanced mobility management application as a service on our software defined mobile network testbed. Initial performance measurements are analyzed for practical insights into the proposed framework, as well as suggestions for its future development.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2019 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019
EditorsAlex Galis, Rogier Noldus, Filip Idzikowski, Fabrice Guillemin, Stefano Secci, Muge Fesci Sayit
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages277-284
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781538683361
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 9 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd International Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019 - Paris, France
Duration: Feb 19 2019Feb 21 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2019 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019

Conference

Conference22nd International Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period2/19/192/21/19

Keywords

  • Autonomous Network Management
  • Network Service Model
  • Network as a Service
  • Service Oriented Networking

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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