Manzalini, A;
Buyukkoc, C;
Chemouil, P;
Callegati, F;
Galis, A;
Odini, MP;
I, CL;
... Sharrock, S; + view all
(2016)
Towards 5G Software-Defined Ecosystems: Technical Challenges, Business Sustainability and Policy Issues.
(IEEE SDN White Paper
).
IEEE: New York, NY, USA.
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Abstract
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.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | Towards 5G Software-Defined Ecosystems: Technical Challenges, Business Sustainability and Policy Issues |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://sdn.ieee.org/publications/towards-5g-softw... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | SDN, NFV, 5G, Open Mobile Edge Cloud |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Electronic and Electrical Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10043678 |
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