Full dynamic orchestration in 5G core network slicing over a cloud-native platform

FH Grings, LBD Silveira, KV Cardoso… - … 2022-2022 IEEE …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
FH Grings, LBD Silveira, KV Cardoso, S Correa, LR Prade, CB Both
GLOBECOM 2022-2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2022ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technological advances in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks are based on native
cloud computing platforms, and Kubernetes (K8S) has emerged as a relevant orchestration
system in this context. However, these platforms were not designed to support 5G services
natively. To illustrate, Kubernetes is designed to be agnostic to the services that it
orchestrates and cannot dynamically reconfigure the 5G core according to existing network
resources, ie, it provides a partial dynamic orchestration to perform network slicing. This …
Technological advances in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks are based on native cloud computing platforms, and Kubernetes (K8S) has emerged as a relevant orchestration system in this context. However, these platforms were not designed to support 5G services natively. To illustrate, Kubernetes is designed to be agnostic to the services that it orchestrates and cannot dynamically reconfigure the 5G core according to existing network resources, i.e., it provides a partial dynamic orchestration to perform network slicing. This paper proposes a solution integrated with K8S to allow full dynamic orchestration of network slicing at runtime, including online adjustments in the 5G core. This integration is accomplished through a K8S-integrated controller for the control plane. The controller adjusts the 5G core and adapts the virtualized infrastructure. The results show a reconfiguration based on full dynamic orchestration without interruption of the services provided, reducing by close to 50% the full reconfiguration requests number by network slices.
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