5G Mobile Network Architecture for diverse services, use cases, and applications in 5G and beyond

Deliverables

Final report on testbed activities and experimental evaluation
Initial overall architecture and concepts for enabling innovations

Initial overall architecture and concepts for enabling innova-tions

Baseline architecture based on 5G-PPP Phase 1 results and gap analysis
Documentation of requirements and KPIs and definition of suitable evaluation criteria
First report on dissemination, standards, and exploitation plan.
Final overall architecture
Final resilience and security report
Methodology for verification and validation of 5G-MoNArch architectural innovations
Initial resilience and security analysis
Final design and evaluation of resource elastic functions

Final design and evaluation of resource elastic framework

Final report on architectural verification and validation
Testbed setup and 5G-MoNArch technologies demonstrated
Final report on dissemination, standards, and exploitation plan.
Initial design of resource elastic functions

Publications

5G Island for Network Resilience and Autonomous Failsafe Operations

Author(s): Bin Han, Marcos Rates Crippa and Hans Schotten
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3268569

Overall 5G-MoNArch Architecture and Implications for Resource Elasticity

Author(s): Bulakci, Ömer; Wei, Qing; Mannweiler, Christian; Gramaglia, Marco; Gutiérrez-Estévez, David; Shariat, Mehrdad; Arnold, Paul; Di Pietro, Nicola; Dandachi, Ghina; Tsolkas, Dimitris
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3297681

A Graph Coloring Based Inter-Slice Resource Management for 5G Dynamic TDD RANs

Author(s): Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Konstantinos Samdanis
Published in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-3180-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422748

Slice-Aware Elastic Resource Management

Author(s): Sina Khatibi, Irina Balan, Dimitris Tsolkas
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.13140/rg.2.2.26855.70562

The Economic drivers for network elasticity

Author(s): Julie Bradford, Simon Fletcher
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3268454

The path towards resource elasticity for 5G network architecture

Author(s): David M. Gutierrez-Estevez, Marco Gramaglia, Antonio de Domenico, Nicola di Pietro, Sina Khatibi, Kunjan Shah, Dimitris Tsolkas, Paul Arnold, Pablo Serrano
Published in: 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference Workshops (WCNCW), 2018, Page(s) 214-219, ISBN 978-1-5386-1154-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNCW.2018.8369027

Behavioural Network Traffic Analytics for Securing 5G Networks

Author(s): Stavros Papadopoulos, Anastasios Drosou, Ilias Kalamaras, Dimitrios Tzovaras
Published in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Issue 1, 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-4328-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCW.2018.8403674

Dynamic Deployment of Virtual Network Functions in Heterogeneous Telco Clouds

Author(s): Antonio De Domenico, Nicola di Pietro, Ghina Dandachi, and Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3269293

SEMPER: A Stateless Traffic Engineering Solution for WAN Based on MP-TCP

Author(s): Gines Garcia-Aviles, Marco Gramaglia, Pablo Serrano, Marc Portoles, Albert Banchs, Fabio Maino
Published in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-3180-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422991

Cognitive Network Fault Management Approach for Improving Resilience in 5G Networks

Author(s): Borislava Gajic, Christian Mannweiler, Diomidis S. Michalopoulos
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3268476

Design and Validation of a Multi-service 5G Network with QoE-aware Orchestration

Author(s): Marco Gramaglia, Ignacio Labrador Pavón, Francesco Gringoli, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Pablo Serrano
Published in: Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation & Characterization - WiNTECH '18, 2018, Page(s) 11-18, ISBN 9781-450359306
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3267204.3267216

Alfa-OMC: cost-aware deep learning for mobile network resource orchestration

Author(s): Bega, Dario; Gramaglia, Marco; Fiore, Marco; Banchs, Albert; Costa-Perez, Xavier
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3299579

A Hybrid Approach for Data Duplication and Network Coding

Author(s): Belschner, Jakob; Michalopoulos, Diomidis
Published in: 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3267098

Identifying 5G System Enhancements: Enabling Technologies for Multi-Service Networks

Author(s): Omer Bulakci, Qing Wei, Aravinthan Gopalasingharm, Antonio DeDomenico, Mehrdad Shariat, Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Fabrizio Moggio, Dimitris Tsolkas, Christian Mannweiler, Marco Gramaglia, Stavros Papadopoulos, Marcos RatesCrippa, Dimitrios Tzovaras
Published in: 2018 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2018, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-8146-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN.2018.8581785

Mobile Network Architecture: End-to-End Network Slicing for 5G and Beyond The path from concepts to practice: The 5G PPP Phase 2 project 5G-MoNArch

Author(s): Schmelz, Lars Christoph; Banchs, Albert; Boldi, Mauro; Bulacki, Ömer; Calvanese Strinati, Emilio; Gutiérrez-Estévez, David; Michalopoulos, Diomidis; G. Blazquez, Jose Enrique; Droste, Heinz
Published in: "Wireless World Research Forum Meeting #39", Issue 1, 2017
Publisher: WWRF
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3269378

Slice-aware Resource Orchestration of an Elastic 5G Network via Evolutionary Algorithms

Author(s): Mpatziakas, Asterios; Papadopoulos, Stavros; Khatibi, Sina; Drosou, Anastasios; Tzovaras, Dimitrios
Published in: 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Workshop, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3268611

On the benefits of bringing cloud-awareness to network virtual functions

Author(s): Serrano Yáñez-Mingot, Pablo; Gramaglia, Marco; Bega, Dario; Gutiérrez-Estévez, David; García Avilés, Ginés; Banchs Roca, Albert
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Special Session, Issue 1, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3297899

Elastic Slice-Aware Radio Resource Management with AI-Traffic Prediction

Author(s): Khatibi, Sina; Jano, Alba
Published in: 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3268510

Slice-aware 5G Dynamic Small Cells

Author(s): Bulacki, Ömer; Pateromichelakis, Emmanouil
Published in: 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3269298

5G Multi-Connectivity with Non-Ideal Backhaul: Distributed vs Cloud-Based Architecture

Author(s): Diomidis S. Michalopoulos, Andreas Maeder, Niko Kolehmainen
Published in: 2018 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-4920-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2018.8644234

A Utility-Driven Multi-Queue Admission Control Solution for Network Slicing

Author(s): Bin Han, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Di Feng, Xavier Costa-Perez, Hans D. Schotten
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, 2019, Page(s) 55-63, ISBN 978-1-7281-0515-4
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM.2019.8737517

Admission and Congestion Control for 5G Network Slicing

Author(s): Bin Han, Antonio DeDomenico, Ghina Dandachi, Anastasios Drosou, Dimitrios Tzovaras, Roberto Querio, Fabrizio Moggio, Omer Bulakci, Hans D. Schotten
Published in: 2018 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-8146-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN.2018.8581773

Enabling Vertical Industries Adoption of 5G Technologies: A Cartography of Evolving Solutions

Author(s): Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Panagiotis Gouvas, Eleni Fotopoulou, George Tsiolis, Thanos Xirofotos, Jose Bonnet, Gino Carrozzo, Stamatia Rizou, Anastasius Gavras, Maria Joao Barros, Xavier Costa-Perez, Athul Prasad, Marco Gramaglia, Anna Tzanakaki, Dimitra Simeonidou, John Cosmas, Mikael Fallgren, Raul Munoz, Ricard Vilalta
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2018, Page(s) 1-9, ISBN 978-1-5386-1478-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2018.8442656

DeepCog: cognitive network management in sliced 5G Networks with deep learning

Author(s): Bega, Dario; Gramaglia, Marco; Fiore, Marco; Banchs, Albert; Costa-Perez, Xavier
Published in: IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3298949

Optimal Computational Resource Allocation and Network Slicing Deployment in 5G Hybrid C-RAN

Author(s): De Domenico, Antonio; Liu, Ya-Feng; Yu, Wei
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Issue 2, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3268620

Optimal Cross Slice Orchestration for 5G Mobile Services

Author(s): Dinh Thai Hoang, Dusit Niyato, Ping Wang, Antonio De Domenico, Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: 2018 IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 2018, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-6358-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTCFall.2018.8690608

Data Duplication for High Reliability: A Protocol Level Simulation Assessment

Author(s): Michalopoulos, Diomidis; Pauli, Volker
Published in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3267117

Modelling of Computational Resources for 5G RAN

Author(s): Sina Khatibi, Kunjan Shah, Mustafa Roshdi
Published in: 2018 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2018, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-1478-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2018.8442563

A Framework for RAN Performance Evaluations based on Software Defined Radio

Author(s): Einhaus, Michael; Kim, Igor; Buchr Charaf, Mohamad; Klinger, Jens
Published in: 24. ITG Fachtagung Mobilkommunikation – Technologien und Anwendungen, Issue 3, 2019
Publisher: VDE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3274323

5G-MoNArch Use Case for ETSI ENI: Elastic Resource Management and Orchestration

Author(s): David M. Gutierrez-Estevez, N. Dipietro, A. Dedomenico, M. Gramaglia, U. Elzur, Y. Wang
Published in: 2018 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), Issue 1, 2018, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-8146-6
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN.2018.8581789

Bandwidth Part Adaptation and Processing Time Evaluation with OpenAirInterface

Author(s): Michael Einhaus, Mohamad Buchr Charaf, Igor Kim, Paul Arnold
Published in: 2018 IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall), 2018, Page(s) 1-5, ISBN 978-1-5386-6358-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/VTCFall.2018.8690902

How Should I Slice My Network? - A Multi-Service Empirical Evaluation of Resource Sharing Efficiency

Author(s): Cristina Marquez, Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Perez
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking - MobiCom '18, 2018, Page(s) 191-206, ISBN 9781-450359030
Publisher: ACM Press
DOI: 10.1145/3241539.3241567

Security Considerations in 5G Networks: A Slice-Aware Trust Zone Approach

Author(s): Schinianakis, Dimitrios; Trapero, Ruben; Michalopoulos, Diomidis; Gallego-Nicasio Crespo, Beatriz
Published in: 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Issue 3, 2018
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3268630

Telco Cloud Resilience: Synergies between Fault and Security Management

Author(s): Gajic, Borislava; Trapero, Ruben; Michalopoulos, Diomidis
Published in: 2019 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), Issue 1, 2019
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3267053

Network Resilience in Virtualized Architectures

Author(s): Diomidis S. Michalopoulos, Borislava Gajic, Beatriz Gallego-Nicasio Crespo, Aravinthan Gopalasingham, Jakob Belschner
Published in: Interactive Mobile Communication Technologies and Learning, Issue 725, 2018, Page(s) 824-839, ISBN 978-3-319-75174-0
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-75175-7_81

Slice as an Evolutionary Service: Genetic Optimization for Inter-Slice Resource Management in 5G Networks

Author(s): Bin Han, Ji Lianghai, Hans D. Schotten
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 6, 2018, Page(s) 33137-33147, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2846543

LAA as a Key Enabler in Slice-Aware 5G RAN: Challenges and Opportunities

Author(s): Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Omer Bulakci, Chenghui Peng, Jiayin Zhang, Yuan Xia
Published in: IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, Issue 2/1, 2018, Page(s) 29-35, ISSN 2471-2825
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MCOMSTD.2018.1700061

A Multi-Traffic Inter-Cell Interference Coordination Scheme in Dense Cellular Networks

Author(s): Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Ilario Filippini, Vincenzo Mancuso, Antonio Capone, Albert Banchs
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Issue 26/5, 2018, Page(s) 2361-2375, ISSN 1063-6692
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2018.2866410

Performance Assessment of Open Software Platforms for 5G Prototyping

Author(s): Francesco Gringoli, Paul Patras, Carlos Donato, Pablo Serrano, Yan Grunenberger
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications, Issue 25/5, 2018, Page(s) 10-15, ISSN 1536-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2018.1800049

Customized Industrial Networks: Network Slicing Trial at Hamburg Seaport

Author(s): Peter Rost, Markus Breitbach, Hendrik Roreger, Bilgehan Erman, Christian Mannweiler, Ray Miller, Ingo Viering
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications, Issue 25/5, 2018, Page(s) 48-55, ISSN 1536-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2018.1800045

Network Slicing Games: Enabling Customization in Multi-Tenant Mobile Networks

Author(s): Pablo Caballero, Albert Banchs, Gustavo De Veciana, Xavier Costa-Perez
Published in: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Issue 27/2, 2019, Page(s) 662-675, ISSN 1063-6692
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2019.2895378

A Markov Model of Slice Admission Control

Author(s): Bin Han, Di Feng, Hans D. Schotten
Published in: IEEE Networking Letters, Issue 1/1, 2019, Page(s) 2-5, ISSN 2576-3156
Publisher: IEEE Networking Letters
DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2018.2873978

Resource Sharing Efficiency in Network Slicing

Author(s): Cristina Marquez, Marco Gramaglia, Marco Fiore, Albert Banchs, Xavier Costa-Perez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 1932-4537
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2019.2923265

CARES: Computation-Aware Scheduling in Virtualized Radio Access Networks

Author(s): Dario Bega, Albert Banchs, Marco Gramaglia, Xavier Costa-Perez, Peter Rost
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 17/12, 2018, Page(s) 7993-8006, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2018.2873324

POSENS: A Practical Open Source Solution for End-to-End Network Slicing

Author(s): Gines Garcia-Aviles, Marco Gramaglia, Pablo Serrano, Albert Banchs
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications, Issue 25/5, 2018, Page(s) 30-37, ISSN 1536-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2018.1800050

Small Cell Deployment Along Roads: Coverage Analysis and Slice-Aware RAT Selection

Author(s): Gourab Ghatak, Antonio De Domenico, Marceau Coupechou
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 0090-6778
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TCOMM.2019.2916794

Artificial Intelligence for Elastic Management and Orchestration of 5G Networks

Author(s): Gutierrez-Estevez, David; Gramaglia, Marco; De Domenico, Antonio; Dandachi, Ghina; Khatibi, Sina; Tsolkas, Dimitris; Balan, Irina; Garcia-Saavedra, Andres; Elzur, Uri; Wang, Yue
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications, Issue 4, 2019, ISSN 1536-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3266981

A Flexible Network Architecture for 5G Systems

Author(s): Mehrdad Shariat, Ömer Bulakci, Antonio De Domenico, Christian Mannweiler, Marco Gramaglia, Qing Wei, Aravinthan Gopalasingham, Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Fabrizio Moggio, Dimitris Tsolkas, Borislava Gajic, Marcos Rates Crippa, Sina Khatibi
Published in: Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Issue 2019, 2019, Page(s) 1-19, ISSN 1530-8669
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1155/2019/5264012

The path toward a cloud-aware mobile network protocol stack

Author(s): Pablo Serrano, Marco Gramaglia, Dario Bega, David Gutierrez-Estevez, Gines Garcia-Aviles, Albert Banchs
Published in: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Issue 29/5, 2018, Page(s) e3312, ISSN 2161-3915
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ett.3312

A Machine Learning approach to 5G Infrastructure Market optimization

Author(s): Dario Bega, Marco Gramaglia, Albert Banchs, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Perez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2019.2896950

Network Slicing for Guaranteed Rate Services: Admission Control and Resource Allocation Games

Author(s): Pablo Caballero, Albert Banchs, Gustavo de Veciana, Xavier Costa-Perez, Arturo Azcorra
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Issue 17/10, 2018, Page(s) 6419-6432, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2018.2859918

Future integrated communication network architectures enabling heterogeneous service provision

Author(s): Paul Arnold, Dirk von Hugo
Published in: Advances in Radio Science, Issue 16, 2018, Page(s) 59-66, ISSN 1684-9973
Publisher: Copernicus Publications GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ars-16-59-2018

A business case for 5G mobile broadband in a dense urban area

Author(s): Juan Rendon Schneir, Ade Ajibulu, Konstantinos Konstantinou, Julie Bradford, Gerd Zimmermann, Heinz Droste, Rafael Canto
Published in: Telecommunications Policy, Issue 43/7, 2019, Page(s) 101813, ISSN 0308-5961
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2019.03.002

A Comprehensive Survey of RAN Architectures Toward 5G Mobile Communication System

Author(s): Mohammad Asif Habibi, Meysam Nasimi, Bin Han, Hans D. Schotten
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 7, 2019, Page(s) 70371-70421, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2919657

End-to-End Data Analytics Framework for 5G Architecture

Author(s): Emmanouil Pateromichelakis, Fabrizio Moggio, Christian Mannweiler, Paul Arnold, Mehrdad Shariat, Michael Einhaus, Qing Wei, Omer Bulakci, Antonio De Domenico
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 7, 2019, Page(s) 40295-40312, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2902984

A Future-Proof Architecture for Management and Orchestration of Multi-Domain NextGen Networks

Author(s): Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Christian Mannweiler, Faqir Zarrar Yousaf, Pablo Serrano, Marco Gramaglia, Julie Bradford, Ignacio Labrador Pavon
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 7, 2019, Page(s) 79216-79232, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/access.2019.2923364

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