A Software-Defined Device-to-Device

Communication Architecture for Public

Safety Applications in 5G Networks

PRIYANKA A
M.Tech (CE&SP)
BL.EN.P2CSP15019
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ABSTRACT
The

device-to-device (D2D) communication paradigm in 5G networks

provides an effective infrastructure to enable different smart city
applications.
It

directly communicates between user equipments.

It

increases Spectrum Efficiency, System throughput and energy

Efficiency.
A centralized

software-defined network (SDN) controller

communicates with the cloud head to reduce the number of requested
long-term evolution (LTE) communication links.
The

concept of local and central controller enables our architecture to

work in case of infrastructure damage.

Schematic Representation of Software Defined D2D

Communication

SDR Schematic Representation

VFU Representation

Comparison of SDN and NFV

Challenges and open issues in 5G networks based

SDR
The centralized nature of the conventional SDN approaches creates a
bottleneck and thus reduces resilience and scalability.
SDN and NFV are very complex to plan due to distinct mobility
models and hardware constraints.
NFV
Programmability of the SDN network needs to be ensured by
standardizing .
The virtualization has a negative impact on the performance of the
virtual LTE and Wi-Fi services.

Challenges in SDN

SOLUTION

Service Oriented Cloud Computing

Wireless Software-basEd architecture for Extremely

Dense networks (WiSEED)
Currently, it is well-known that the costs of the physical infrastructure
for LTE are high.
Due to the versatile management provided by NFV, the virtualized
features of LTE can provide better scalability and resilience, while
seeking to minimize costs and energy consumption.
For instance, virtualized services like Home Subscriber Server (HSS)
and PDN/Serving Gateway (P/SGW) of Evolved Packet Core (EPC) in a
mobile cloud enable scaling to the specific requirements of these
services, such as situations where there is a need to increase resources
for the user plane without affecting the control plane.
Thus SDN and NFV can work in a complementary way to the
WiSEED architecture by managing and orchestrating NFs.

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Contd,
Its main goal lies on providing ubiquity and a high degree of
efficiency in the services for mobile end users.
Each operational service intends to gather the most recent and
adequate techniques and approaches, as well as to deal with
challenges in order to integrate these different solutions in
WiSEED.
Furthermore, WiSEED employs advanced concepts as enabler
network technologies, such as software-defined networking
(SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV).

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Schematic Representation for WISEED Technology

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