Offloading mechanisms for mobile networks using SDN in virtualized environments
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Data de Publicação: | 2018 |
Tipo de documento: | Dissertação |
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Título da fonte: | Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) |
Texto Completo: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/25031 |
Resumo: | The exploding mobile data traffic increase in recent years has been putting a high load on both mobile cells and core network, with operators facing the need to upgrade their networks. Nowadays, to do this upgrade, operators need to purchase new specialized equipment for network functions, having to cope with a high upgrade CAPEX. Furthermore, networks are deployed with a one size fits all approach, which in some cases might not satisfy the requirements of specific services. 5G aims to solve these problems by virtualizing network functions in datacenters, decoupling the software from the hardware for network functions and using general purpose hardware instead. To support this, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is introduced, which allows the network to have a higher degree of programmability, enabling new features such as higher flexibility and network slicing, where multiple virtual networks can be created and tailored to specific requirements. This thesis addresses an architecture that evolves the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) into a core network closer to 5G by virtualizing EPC’s network functions, introducing SDN and supporting 4G to Wi-Fi traffic offloading, helping to reduce the load on mobile cells by leveraging on the smartphone’s support for dual connectivity and high density of Wi-Fi access points already deployed worldwide. The proposed architecture is then evaluated and compared to a vanilla EPC whenever possible showing that, although there is an increase in latency at the virtual EPC, the bottleneck of the system resides in the air interface. Also, a use case for this architecture was defined and evaluated. The use case considered traffic offloading and dynamic Wi-Fi slice creation, with results showing that it can seamlessly offload a video stream from 4G to Wi-Fi without affecting the user’s Quality of Experience. |
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Offloading mechanisms for mobile networks using SDN in virtualized environments5G4GSDNNFVCloudVirtualizationOffloadingEPCThe exploding mobile data traffic increase in recent years has been putting a high load on both mobile cells and core network, with operators facing the need to upgrade their networks. Nowadays, to do this upgrade, operators need to purchase new specialized equipment for network functions, having to cope with a high upgrade CAPEX. Furthermore, networks are deployed with a one size fits all approach, which in some cases might not satisfy the requirements of specific services. 5G aims to solve these problems by virtualizing network functions in datacenters, decoupling the software from the hardware for network functions and using general purpose hardware instead. To support this, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is introduced, which allows the network to have a higher degree of programmability, enabling new features such as higher flexibility and network slicing, where multiple virtual networks can be created and tailored to specific requirements. This thesis addresses an architecture that evolves the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) into a core network closer to 5G by virtualizing EPC’s network functions, introducing SDN and supporting 4G to Wi-Fi traffic offloading, helping to reduce the load on mobile cells by leveraging on the smartphone’s support for dual connectivity and high density of Wi-Fi access points already deployed worldwide. The proposed architecture is then evaluated and compared to a vanilla EPC whenever possible showing that, although there is an increase in latency at the virtual EPC, the bottleneck of the system resides in the air interface. Also, a use case for this architecture was defined and evaluated. The use case considered traffic offloading and dynamic Wi-Fi slice creation, with results showing that it can seamlessly offload a video stream from 4G to Wi-Fi without affecting the user’s Quality of Experience.O explosivo aumento do tráfego móvel em anos recentes tem vindo a aumentar a carga nas células e núcleo da rede móvel, com os operadores a serem confrontados com a necessidade de atualizar as mesmas. Hoje em dia, para executar esta atualização, os operadores necessitam de adquirir equipamento novo e especializado para as funções de rede, levando a um grande CAPEX de atualização. Além disso, as redes são implementadas seguindo uma abordagem de uma solução única para todos os casos, o que nalguns pode não satisfazer os requisitos de serviços específicos. O 5G visa resolver estes problemas ao virtualizar funções de rede em datacenters, desacoplando o software do hardware para as funções de rede e ao utilizar hardware de uso geral. Para suportar isto, as redes definidas por software (SDN) são introduzidas, permitindo um maior grau de programabilidade na rede, e permitindo novas funcionalidades como maior flexibilidade e segmentação de rede, onde múltiplas redes virtuais podem ser criadas com requisitos específicos. Esta tese endereça uma arquitetura que evolui o Evolved Packet Core (EPC) para uma rede de core mais próxima do 5G ao virtualizar as funções de rede do EPC, introduzindo SDN e suportando Wi-Fi e "offloading" de tráfego da rede móvel para a rede Wi-Fi, auxiliando na redução da carga das células móveis ao tirar partido da capacidade de conectividade múltipla e da grande densidade de pontos de acesso implementados mundialmente. A arquitetura proposta é então avaliada e comparada com um EPC implementado numa máquina física sempre que possível mostrando que, apesar do aumento da latência no EPC virtualizado, a limitação do sistema é devida à interface de rádio. Um cenário para esta arquitetura é definido e avaliado, considerando o "offloading" de tráfego e instanciação dinâmica de redes segmentadas, com resultados a mostrar que o sistema consegue fazer um offload perfeito de tráfego de um stream de vídeo de 4G para Wi-Fi sem afetar a Qualidade de Experiência do utilizador.2019-01-10T11:34:09Z2018-07-19T00:00:00Z2018-07-19info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesisapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10773/25031TID:202242030engSilva, Rui Miguel Morais dainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-02-22T11:48:53Zoai:ria.ua.pt:10773/25031Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-20T02:58:30.342671Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Offloading mechanisms for mobile networks using SDN in virtualized environments |
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Silva, Rui Miguel Morais da |
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The exploding mobile data traffic increase in recent years has been putting a high load on both mobile cells and core network, with operators facing the need to upgrade their networks. Nowadays, to do this upgrade, operators need to purchase new specialized equipment for network functions, having to cope with a high upgrade CAPEX. Furthermore, networks are deployed with a one size fits all approach, which in some cases might not satisfy the requirements of specific services. 5G aims to solve these problems by virtualizing network functions in datacenters, decoupling the software from the hardware for network functions and using general purpose hardware instead. To support this, Software Defined Networking (SDN) is introduced, which allows the network to have a higher degree of programmability, enabling new features such as higher flexibility and network slicing, where multiple virtual networks can be created and tailored to specific requirements. This thesis addresses an architecture that evolves the Evolved Packet Core (EPC) into a core network closer to 5G by virtualizing EPC’s network functions, introducing SDN and supporting 4G to Wi-Fi traffic offloading, helping to reduce the load on mobile cells by leveraging on the smartphone’s support for dual connectivity and high density of Wi-Fi access points already deployed worldwide. The proposed architecture is then evaluated and compared to a vanilla EPC whenever possible showing that, although there is an increase in latency at the virtual EPC, the bottleneck of the system resides in the air interface. Also, a use case for this architecture was defined and evaluated. The use case considered traffic offloading and dynamic Wi-Fi slice creation, with results showing that it can seamlessly offload a video stream from 4G to Wi-Fi without affecting the user’s Quality of Experience. |
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