Abstract
The 5G infrastructure initiative in Europe has agreed a number of challenging key performance indicators (KPIs) to significantly enhance the user experience and support a number of use cases with very demanding requirements on the network infrastructure. At the same time there is high pressure on the reduction of the operational expenditure (OPEX). A contribution to meeting the KPIs and to reduce OPEX is to evolve the management of the network into a fully autonomic and intelligent framework. Based on advanced technologies, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the EU H2020 project SELFNET (https://selfnet-5g.eu/) is proposing an advanced network management framework to achieve these objectives.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 229-246 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | Computer Standards & Interfaces |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 20 Feb 2017 |
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| Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 20 Feb 2017 |
Keywords
- network functions virtualization
- Software defined networking
- 5G
- self-organizing networks
- autonomic management