5G and Software-defined

Networking (SDN)

Toktam Mahmoodi
.LQJ¶V&ROOHJHLondon

www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/Toktam/index.htm

17 March 2015 IET 5G Radio Technology Seminar

Who is Online?

³People have gone online with multi-user computers for

over half a century. Military pioneers in the 1950 were
joined by academics and business people in the 1960s,
and by the first general users in the 1970s. The 1980s saw
an explosion of choices. The 1990s boiled them down to
the Web and Internet, which went mobile in the 2000s.”
 Change of Online Pattern

Mobile media usage throughout the day, InMobile & On Device Research, mobile
media consumption, February 2012.
Endless Races:
Controlling small cells & limited Spectrum

9 ³7KH\envision only 100

channels (far more would be
needed«´

9 ³%HFDXVHthe cells were so

small, a moving vehicle might
now pass through many cells
during a call. «7KLVwould add
complexity to both the mobile
unit and the base station, and
would require a massive
central computer´

Notes from first cellular meeting, Cellular Dreams and Cordless

Jan 17, 1966 Nightmares: Life at Bell Laboratories
in Interesting Times
50Y of Evolution to 5G

† More capable devices † Over the top services

† Rich set of applications † Cloud-based services
† Open interfaces
†
50Y of Evolution to 5G

… Convergence
† Blended wireless infrastructure

… Autonomy
† Devices are the cells

… Predictability
† Mobility/content/usage patterns are predictable
Central control: a machine that solves it all

Turing Machine by Tom

Dunne, in American
Scientist
Big list of advantages of SDN in Mobile

… Flexible support of middleboxes

… Better inter-cell interference management

… Scalable distributed enforcement of QoS and firewall policies in

data plane

… Flexible support of virtual operators by partitioning flow space

… Seamless subscriber mobility across technologies

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The real importance

… Abstraction is fundamental
† to separate concerns
† to make problems modular and tractable.

… Abstraction is fundamental
† to enable innovative new businesses
Abstraction

… Deliver Convergence
† Blended wireless infrastructure

… Deal with Autonomy

† Devices are the cells

… Use the Predictability

† Mobility/content/usage patterns are predictable
Management plane BSS/Operator scripts

Resourc Value-added
Diffserv Mobility
e mgmt services
Subscriber
3GPP State Routing NFV and UE Pica-8 p-3290
Topologyy Platform
clients Distrib and GTP control essentials info OpenFlow switch

Controller

End User
domain
Management plane Core network
BSS/OS MME HSS PCR
Emulate access and S F
backhaul
(L2/3 routers, BSs)

SDN
Controller
er Data analysis
machine

Gateway(s)
OpenFlow
enabled

General purpose
machines
Convergence

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with UoA, to appear in IEEE Trans. NSM.
Radio resource sharing as a service

… Radio resource sharing between different cellular

operators as well as cellular and WiFi operators.
† Better utilization of the overall infrastructure
† New opportunities for spectrum auctioning by the virtual service
provider
† More challenging admission control

average download goodput per UE

Device Centric 9 Taking the race of small cells to the limit
Networking 9 Every device is the cell
9 Autonomous devices
9 Predictable patterns
Using location profile for selecting access

… Bringing device to the centre of network architecture

† Device measurements
† Integrating abstract network view through open interface
† Integrating Location profile
Device-only
Network view
Location profile

†Using Learning based

approach
KCL in H2020 5G
NORMA
5G Novel Radio Multiservice &
flexible Network Architecture
VirtuWind
Virtual and Programmable
industrial network prototype
deployed in operational Wind
park
Recent/Relevant Publications

>@³Radio resource sharing as a service in 5G: SDN approach´LQ

collaboration with UoA, to appear in IEEE Trans. NSM, 2015.

>@³Convergence of Radio Access in 5G´LQFROODERUDWLRQZLWKUoA,

to appear in Proc of IEEE, 2015.

>@³+DQGOLQJthe Increasing Volume of Mobile Data Traffic: On Using

SDN-EDVHGFRQWUROSODQHLQ*´, IEEE VT Magazine, Sept 2014.

>@³SDN-based Data Offloading for 5G Mobile Networks´=7(

Communication Magazine, June 2014, and ICC 2014 proceeding.

>@³Network Selection for Autonomous Mobile Devices´LQSURF

WoNS 2013.
 5G and Software-defined
Networking (SDN)

Toktam Mahmoodi
.LQJ¶V&ROOHJHLondon

www.ctr.kcl.ac.uk/Toktam/index.htm

17 March 2015 IET 5G Radio Technology Seminar