SliceNetVSwitch: definition, design and implementation of 5G multi-tenant network slicing in software data paths

Antonio Matencio-Escolar; Qi Wang; Jose M. Alcaraz Calero

doi:10.1109/TNSM.2020.3029653

SliceNetVSwitch: definition, design and implementation of 5G multi-tenant network slicing in software data paths

Antonio Matencio-Escolar
, Qi Wang
, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Network slicing is a primary Fifth-Generation (5G)mobile networking technology to create virtualised and soft-warised logical networks for various vertical businesses withdiverging Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Meanwhile,there is a clear gap in providing network slicing capabilitiesin 5G multi-tenant networks to enable guaranteed QoS in termsof well-defined network metrics for the multiple tenants sharingthe same physical infrastructure. This paper designs and imple-ments novel software data path architecture that enables suchnetwork slicing with assured QoS in 5G multi-tenant networks.Highly flexible and customisable definition of network slicingis also allowed to be aligned with different existing definitionson demand and at run time. The proposed architecture hasbeen prototyped based on the popular Open Virtual Switch(OVS), and empirically validated to demonstrate the deploymentand management of network slices with the above capabilities.Intensive scalability results are provided where more than 8,192network slices are achieved simultaneously with warranted QoSthrough performance isolation in terms of bandwidth and delayin a real softwarised 5G multi-tenant infrastructure at speeds ofup to 10 Gbps

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2212-2225
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Volume	17
Issue number	4
Early online date	8 Oct 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2020.3029653
Publication status	Published - 9 Dec 2020

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SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities

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5G
network slicing
network management
network control

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