TY - GEN
T1 - An Autonomous Service-Oriented Orchestration Framework for Software Defined Mobile Networks
AU - Dang, Xuan Thuy
AU - Khan, Manzoor Ahmed
AU - Sivrikaya, Fikret
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
PY - 2019/4/9
Y1 - 2019/4/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Autonomous Network Management
KW - Network Service Model
KW - Network as a Service
KW - Service Oriented Networking
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U2 - 10.1109/ICIN.2019.8685919
DO - 10.1109/ICIN.2019.8685919
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85064993463
T3 - Proceedings of the 2019 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019
SP - 277
EP - 284
BT - Proceedings of the 2019 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019
A2 - Galis, Alex
A2 - Noldus, Rogier
A2 - Idzikowski, Filip
A2 - Guillemin, Fabrice
A2 - Secci, Stefano
A2 - Sayit, Muge Fesci
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 22nd International Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2019
Y2 - 19 February 2019 through 21 February 2019
ER -