Data-driven decision-making framework for optical fronthaul slice resizing in 6G networks

NFS Seixas, S Rahman… - Journal of Optical …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
The third-generation partnership introduced three main types of slices: enhanced mobile
broadband, massive machine-type communication, and ultrareliable low-latency …

Disruption minimized bandwidth scaling in EON-enabled transport network slices

N Shahriar, M Zulfiqar, SR Chowdhury… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) enable finer-grained resource allocation and tuning of
transmission configurations for right-sized resource allocation. These features make EONs …

Optimal QoS-aware allocation of virtual network resources to mixed mobile-optical network slices

MH Keshavarz, M Hadi, M Lashgari… - 2021 IEEE Global …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Slicing allows 5G networks to accommodate services with different needs over a unified
physical network infrastructure. Particularly, in radio access networks (RANs), the baseband …

Hierarchical edge cloud enabling network slicing for 5G optical fronthaul

C Song, M Zhang, Y Zhan, D Wang, L Guan… - Journal of Optical …, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Network slicing has been proposed as an innovative concept to partition a physical network
into different configurable slices, thereby allowing the network to meet the diverse …

Supporting QoE/QoS-aware end-to-end network slicing in future 5G-enabled optical networks

R Montero, A Pagès, F Agraz… - Metro and Data Center …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Network slicing with Quality of Experience/Quality of Service (QoE/QoS) guarantees is seen
as one of the key enablers of future 5G networks. Nevertheless, it poses several challenges …

End-to-end slicing of RAN based on next-generation optical access network

C Centofanti, A Marotta, V Gudepu, D Cassioli… - Photonic Network …, 2024 - Springer
Given their widespread use, optical access networks are suitable as a practical infrastructure
for mobile networks and services. The diverse range of services supported by mobile …

BackHauling-as-a-service (BHaaS) for 5G optical sliced networks: An optimized TCO approach

N Haddaji, A Bayati, KK Nguyen… - Journal of Lightwave …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
Due to their initial overestimation of demand, many network operators are overprovisioning
their infrastructure. Overdesigned networks vastly increase operational costs without …

DRL-assisted reoptimization of network slice embedding on EON-enabled transport networks

SS Johari, S Taeb, N Shahriar… - … on Network and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
5G transport networks will support dynamic services with diverse requirements through
network slicing. Elastic Optical Networks (EONs) facilitate transport network slicing by …

Enabling service provisioning and quality maintenance in sliceable optical networks

S Spadaro, A Pagès, JB Caro… - Metro and Data Center …, 2021 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Future 5G and beyond services rely on the network slicing concept, in which underlying
network elements are split and/or aggregated to compose a synthetic network infrastructure …

Integrated optical-wireless resource slicing management for 5G service-based architecture and multi-level RAN

R Gu, M Cen, L Wang, Q Guo, Y Diao… - 2018 Optical Fiber …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This demo provides an integrated end-to-end optical-wireless slicing cross latest SBA based
core network, backhaul network and two-level fronthaul networks, showing consistent …