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Virtualization and Programmability in Mobile Wireless Networks: Architecture and Resource Management

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Kleber V. Cardoso,

Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman,

Allen B. MacKenzie,

Luiz A. DaSilvaAuthors Info & Claims

MECOMM '17: Proceedings of the Workshop on Mobile Edge Communications

Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/3098208.3098209

Published: 09 August 2017 Publication History

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We present a high-level end-to-end architecture for virtualization and programmability in next-generation mobile wireless networks. Our architecture envisions three major players: Service Providers, who wish to orchestrate wireless networks with particular characteristics to support particular applications; Resource Providers, who contribute resources such as spectrum, access points, backhaul infrastructure, and computing; and Virtual Network Builders, who marshal resources into networks for Service Providers. We take into account resource sharing and investigate how virtualization and programmability affect resource management. We show that: (i) virtualization reduces cost significantly, (ii) this cost reduction does not degrade the user satisfaction, and (iii) non-virtualized networks need to keep a large amount of idle capacity to satisfy coverage.

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Virtualization and Programmability in Mobile Wireless Networks: Architecture and Resource Management
1. Mathematics of computing
  1. Mathematical analysis
    1. Mathematical optimization
      1. Mixed discrete-continuous optimization
  2. Probability and statistics
2. Networks

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