TY  - GEN
AV  - public
SP  - 1
Y1  - 2016/07//
EP  - 16
TI  - Towards 5G Software-Defined Ecosystems: Technical Challenges, Business Sustainability and Policy Issues
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
PB  - IEEE
UR  - https://sdn.ieee.org/publications/towards-5g-software-defined-ecosystems
N2  - Techno-economic drivers are creating the conditions for a radical change of paradigm in the design and operation of future telecommunications infrastructures. In fact, SDN, NFV, Cloud and Edge-Fog Computing are converging together into a single systemic transformation termed ?Softwarization? that will find concrete exploitations in 5G systems. The IEEE SDN Initiative1 has elaborated a vision, an evolutionary path and some techno-economic scenarios of this transformation: specifically, the major technical challenges, business sustainability and policy issues have been investigated. This white paper presents: 1) an overview on the main techno-economic drivers steering the ?Softwarization? of telecommunications; 2) an introduction to the Open Mobile Edge Cloud vision (covered in a companion white paper); 3) the main technical challenges in terms of operations, security and policy; 4) an analysis of the potential role of open source software; 5) some use case proposals for proof-of-concepts; and 6) a short description of the main socio-economic impacts being produced by ?Softwarization?. Along these directions, IEEE SDN is also developing of an open catalogue of software platforms, toolkits, and functionalities aiming at a step-by-step development and aggregation of test-beds/field-trials on SDNNFV- 5G.
ID  - discovery10043678
T3  - IEEE SDN White Paper
A1  - Manzalini, A
A1  - Buyukkoc, C
A1  - Chemouil, P
A1  - Callegati, F
A1  - Galis, A
A1  - Odini, MP
A1  - I, CL
A1  - Huang, J
A1  - Bursell, M
A1  - Crespi, N
A1  - Healy, E
A1  - Sharrock, S
KW  - SDN
KW  -  NFV
KW  -  5G
KW  -  Open Mobile Edge Cloud
CY  - New York, NY, USA
ER  -