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Harmonizing 3GPP and NFV description models to provide customized RAN slices in 5G networks
Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Pablo Munoz, Jose Ordonez-Lucena +2
The standardization of Radio Access Network (RAN) in mobile networks has traditionally been led by 3GPP. However, the emergence of RAN slicing has introduced new aspects that fall…
The Creation Phase in Network Slicing: From a Service Order to an Operative Network Slice
Jose Ordonez-Lucena, Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Pablo Ameigeiras +4
Network slicing is considered a key mechanism to serve the multitude of tenants (e.g. vertical industries) targeted by forthcoming 5G systems in a flexible and cost-efficient manne…
Analytic Analysis of Narrowband IoT Coverage Enhancement Approaches
Pilar Andres-Maldonado, Pablo Ameigeiras, Jonathan Prados-Garzon +3
The introduction of Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) as a cellular IoT technology aims to support massive Machine-Type Communications applications. These applications are cha…
Automated Network Service Scaling in NFV: Concepts, Mechanisms and Scaling Workflow
Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, Jose Ordonez-Lucena, Pablo Ameigeiras +3
Next-generation systems are anticipated to be digital platforms supporting innovative services with rapidly changing traffic patterns. To cope with this dynamicity in a cost-effici…
Network Slicing for 5G with SDN/NFV: Concepts, Architectures and Challenges
Jose Ordonez-Lucena, Pablo Ameigeiras, Diego Lopez +3
The fifth generation of mobile communications is anticipated to open up innovation opportunities for new industries such as vertical markets. However, these verticals originate myr…
Optimized LTE Data Transmission Procedures for IoT: Device Side Energy Consumption Analysis
Pilar Andres-Maldonado, Pablo Ameigeiras, Jonathan Prados-Garzon +2
The efficient deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) over cellular networks, such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) or the next generation 5G, entails several challenges. For massive Io…
Modeling and Dimensioning of a Virtualized MME for 5G Mobile Networks
Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Juan J. Ramos-Munoz, Pablo Ameigeiras +2
Network Function Virtualization is considered one of the key technologies for developing the future mobile networks. In this paper, we propose a theoretical framework to evaluate t…
Analytical Modeling for Virtualized Network Functions
Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Pablo Ameigeiras, Juan J. Ramos-Munoz +2
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is considered one of the key technologies for the 5G mobile networks. In NFV, network functions are implemented in software components denomin…
Latency Evaluation of a Virtualized MME
Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Juan J. Ramos-Munoz, Pablo Ameigeiras +2
Network Virtualization is one of the key technologies for developing the future mobile networks. However, the performance of virtual mobile entities may not be sufficient for deliv…