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Enabling Multi-segment 5G Service Provisioning and Maintenance through Network Slicing

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The current deployment of 5G networks in a way to support the highly demanding service types defined for 5G, has brought the need for using new techniques to accommodate legacy networks to such requirements. Network Slicing in turn, enables sharing the same underlying physical infrastructure among services with different requirements, thus providing a level of isolation between them to guarantee their proper functionality. In this work, we analyse from an architectural point of view, the required coordination for the provisioning of 5G services over multiple network segments/domains by means of network slicing, considering as well the use of sensors and actuators to maintain slices performance during its lifetime. We set up an experimental multi-segment testbed to demonstrate end-to-end service provisioning and its guarantee in terms of specific QoS parameters, such as latency, throughput and Virtual Network Function (VNF) CPU/RAM consumption. The results provided, demonstrate the workflow between different network components to coordinate the deployment of slices, besides providing a set of examples for slice maintenance through service monitoring and the use of policy-based actuations.

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This work has been supported by the H2020 5GPPP SLICENET Project (H2020-ICT-2016-2/761913) and the Spanish Government through Project ALLIANCE-B (TEC2017-90034-C2-2-R) with FEDER contribution.

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    Rafael Montero, Fernando Agraz, Albert Pagès & Salvatore Spadaro

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Montero, R., Agraz, F., Pagès, A. et al. Enabling Multi-segment 5G Service Provisioning and Maintenance through Network Slicing. J Netw Syst Manage 28, 340–366 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10922-019-09509-9

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