Design and Implementation of SMARTHO -- A Network Initiated Handover mechanism in NG-RAN, on P4-based Xilinx NetFPGA switches

Phanindra Palagummi, Krishna M. Sivalingam

This report deals with the design of handover schemes for radio access networks (RAN) in 5G networks, using programmable data plane switches. In 5G networks, the NG-RAN architectur…