Intelligent 5G Network Slicing
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart System Infrastructure and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 4274
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Network slicing is a paradigm that allows the sharing of the same infrastructure for providing differentiated 5G services; thus, service level assurance (SLA) becomes challenging while multiple services with various requirements need to be served simultaneously. There are cases that a single vertical application may be provisioned by multiple slices with resources located from the core to the edge and the 5G RAN, while in other cases, verticals may share part of one slice. OSS/BSS service and network orchestrators need to have a full understanding and a kind of situational awareness of such complex relationships. They need to decide, define, and reorganize slicing solutions, meeting the agreed SLAs for each vertical application in a manner that they “intelligently” facilitate the realization of the “zero-touch network and service management” vision.
Submissions can focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Service-based architectures, solutions, and use cases for intelligent 5G slicing and lifecycle management that implement closed-loop automation, FCAPS, service assurance, and “zero-touch network and service management”;
- Concepts, solutions, and use cases that address the slicing issue in an end-to-end manner, from the core to the edge, including the radio resources as well (or satellite integration in 5G), even in cross-domain/federated cases or in non-public networks;
- Concepts, solutions, and use cases that provision resources and create 5G network slices by ensuring KPIs like latency, energy consumption, cost reduction, isolation, etc., especially those introduced by ideas like the generic slice template from GSMA, or service profile by 3GPP;
- Intent-based, AI-driven slice specification and continuous monitoring, management, and adaptation across layers, from network and computing to low-level edge hardware resources;
- 5G RAN and intelligent slicing;
- Multi-access edge computing and intelligent slicing;
- Management models for intelligent slicing.
Dr. Christos Tranoris
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 5G
- network slicing
- zero-touch service management
- 5G slicing templates
- 5G service assurance
