TY - JOUR
T1 - Enable advanced QoS-aware network slicing in 5G networks for slice-based media use cases
AU - Wang, Qi
AU - Alcaraz Calero, Jose
AU - Ricart-Sanchez, Ruben
AU - Weiss, Maria Barros
AU - Gravas, Anastasius
AU - Nikaein, Navid
AU - Vasilakos, Xenofon
AU - Giacomo, Bernini
AU - Pietro, Giardina
AU - Roddy, Mark
AU - Healy, Michael
AU - Walsh, Paul
AU - Truong, Thuy
AU - Bozakov, Zdravko
AU - Koutsopoulos, Konstantinos
AU - Neves, Pedro
AU - Patachia-Sultanoiu, Cristian
AU - Iordache, Marius
AU - Oproiu, Elena
AU - Grida Ben Yahia, Imen
AU - Angelo, Ciriaco
AU - Zotti, Cosimo
AU - Celozzi, Giuseppe
AU - Morris, Donal
AU - Figueiredo, Ricardo
AU - Lorenz, Dean
AU - Spadaro, Salvatore
AU - Agapiou, George
AU - Aleixo, Ana
AU - Lomba, Cipriano
PY - 2019/6/1
Y1 - 2019/6/1
N2 - Media use cases for emergency services require mission-critical levels of reliability for the delivery of media-rich services such as video streaming. With the upcoming deployment of the Fifth Generation (5G) networks, a wide variety of applications and services with heterogeneous performance requirements are expected to be supported, and any migration of mission-critical services to 5G networks presents significant challenges in the Quality of Service (QoS), for emergency service operators. This paper presents a novel SliceNet framework, based on advanced and customisable network slicing to address some of the highlighted challenges in migrating eHealth telemedicine services to 5G networks. An overview of the framework outlines the technical approaches in beyond the-state-of-the-art network slicing. Subsequently, the paper emphasises the design and prototyping of a media-centric eHealth use case, focusing on a set of innovative enablers towards achieving end-to-end QoS-aware network slicing capabilities, required by this demanding use case. Experimental results empirically validate the prototyped enablers and demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework in such media-rich use cases.
AB - Media use cases for emergency services require mission-critical levels of reliability for the delivery of media-rich services such as video streaming. With the upcoming deployment of the Fifth Generation (5G) networks, a wide variety of applications and services with heterogeneous performance requirements are expected to be supported, and any migration of mission-critical services to 5G networks presents significant challenges in the Quality of Service (QoS), for emergency service operators. This paper presents a novel SliceNet framework, based on advanced and customisable network slicing to address some of the highlighted challenges in migrating eHealth telemedicine services to 5G networks. An overview of the framework outlines the technical approaches in beyond the-state-of-the-art network slicing. Subsequently, the paper emphasises the design and prototyping of a media-centric eHealth use case, focusing on a set of innovative enablers towards achieving end-to-end QoS-aware network slicing capabilities, required by this demanding use case. Experimental results empirically validate the prototyped enablers and demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework in such media-rich use cases.
KW - 5G
KW - Network slicing
KW - Quality of Service
KW - eHealth
KW - Media use case
KW - Verticals
U2 - 10.1109/TBC.2019.2901402
DO - 10.1109/TBC.2019.2901402
M3 - Article
SN - 0018-9316
VL - 65
SP - 444
EP - 453
JO - IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
JF - IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting
IS - 2
ER -
