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RAN Orchestration: A New Approach to Spectrum Management in Multi-Tenant 5G Networks

Authors:

Shah Nawaz Khan , Leonardo Goratti , Shahriar Hasan, Roberto Riggio

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8581024


Abstract

5G networks will incorporate new innovative technologies and concepts such as network virtualization, SDN/NFV, multi-tenancy and network slicing. Moreover, resource orchestration play a pivotal role to dynamically deploy network services and allocate resources. Orchestration is a control function for resource management in the network core and centralized cloud infrastructure. However, for end-to-end slicing and resource management, the orchestration functions must also be realized at the network edge i.e., the RAN segment. In this paper, we present an architecture for active RAN resource orchestration in which radio resource allocation to different tenants is dynamically scaled in real-time. A parallel can be drawn to the classic spectrum sharing scenarios as we evaluate the well known co-primary sharing model in a multi-tenant RAN context. Moreover, we extend SimuLTE, a well-known system level simulation model to integrate our RAN orchestration architecture and implement different scheduling policies. We evaluate system level network performance using fine-grained radio resource sharing approach and evaluate the involved performance-fairness trade-offs.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Khan5620,
author = {Shah Nawaz Khan and Leonardo Goratti and Shahriar Hasan and Roberto Riggio},
title = {RAN Orchestration: A New Approach to Spectrum Management in Multi-Tenant 5G Networks},
booktitle = {IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/5620-}
}