Quality of Service of Critical Applications in Mobile Networks
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 November 2021) | Viewed by 494
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Interests: cybersecurity (risk assessment, security enforcement, vulnerabilities management); IP technologies (radio: 5G and 6G, core: network services chain, SDN, AI); applications (DLT and blockchain, Internet of Things, smart cities, multimedia) for the future internet
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Dear Colleagues,
New critical applications will be taken to the Mobile Network only when the network will be able to ensure high quality of service of the connections. In last years, Mission Critical services have defined requirements to the network within the framework of Public Protection & Disaster Relief. This framework proposes a number of services that the network should offer with high reliability and perfect connectivity. Such services are divided in (a) quotidianian such as push-to-talk connections, communication in a group of users, dynamic creation of teams (groups of users), direct communication among users inside of a group, etc., as well as applications in case of natural disasters such as connectivity in disaster scenarios and privacy and security in damaged network infrastructures.
Current mobile networks such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) specifies Mission Critical services and provides technical solutions mainly by locating those applications at the mobile operator’s premises, normally embedded into the IMS system. From the point of view of technology, this approach increases the quality of the Mission Critical services, however this excludes other external players that will be able to offer such services. Therefore, in 5G and future mobile networks, other solutions are required that will provide the possibility of including Mission Critical services providers out of the mobile operators.
From the point of view of quality assurance, the new 5G network provides some new crucial technologies at the radio (New Radio) and at the core (SDN, NFV, Network slicing), however mostly it is not clear how to manage Mission Critical in such a complex network. Therefore, we call for new approaches to the management of Mission Critical services and other applications with high quality requirements in mobile networks. In this Special Issue we expect new mechanisms, architectures and technologies directed to improve quality of given services/ applications.
Prof. Dr. Jordi Mongay Batalla
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- advances in technologies in the core mobile network (SDN, NFV, Slicing, etc.)
- quality assurance in Radio Access
- critical services in 5G and beyond
- architecture for providing mission critical services in mobile networks
- connectivity assurance in disaster scenarios
- resource sharing and management
- security and privacy aspects of mission critical applications
- advances in IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) and PaaS (Platform as a Service) in mobile networks Quality of Service in 5G
- advances in Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications and enhanced Mobile BroadBand
