Vnf and cnf placement in 5g: Recent advances and future trends

W Attaoui, E Sabir, H Elbiaze… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the growing demand for openness, scalability, and granularity, mobile network function
virtualization (NFV) has emerged as a key enabler for the most of mobile network operators …

On the benefits of vdu standardization in softwarized ng-ran: Enabling technologies, challenges, and opportunities

B Ojaghi, F Adelantado… - IEEE Communications …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Softwarization of Next Generation-Radio Access Network (NG-RAN) comes along with
virtualization of Network Functions (NFs) as purely software-based applications, distributed …

DRL-based Service Migration for MEC Cloud-Native 5G and beyond Networks

T Tsourdinis, N Makris, S Fdida… - 2023 IEEE 9th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been considered one of the most prominent
enablers for low-latency access to services provided over the telecommunications network …

Enabling containerized Central Unit live migration in 5G radio access network: An experimental study

S Ramanathan, A Bhattacharyya, K Kondepu… - Journal of Network and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract 5G mobile networks have gained considerable attention and traction by offering
numerous benefits such as high data rates, low latency, reliability, and application specific …

Resiliency in Open-Source Solutions for Disaggregated 5G Cloud Radio Access and Transport Networks

S Ramanathan, K Kondepu… - 2022 IEEE Conference …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud Radio Access Network (C-RAN) has emerged as an advantageous architecture to
address the needs of future wireless networks. Leveraging both Network Functions …

Fault-Tolerance in Future RAN: Enabling Redundancy for Efficient Recovery of RAN Network Functions

L Wernet, F Siegmund, R Kundel… - … IEEE Conference on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, the reliability and resilience of communication networks and cellular
networks in particular has become of increasing importance. For cellular networks …

Extending stream control transport protocol to support containerized central unit live migration in 5g radio access network: A feasibility study

S Ramanathan, A Bhattacharyya - Authorea Preprints, 2023 - techrxiv.org
Softwarization and virtualization of 5G radio access network components can bring cloud-
like benefits to mobile network operators. In cloud and edge computing environments, these …

Building Resiliency Into 5G Open-source and Disaggregated Architecture

S Ramanathan - 2023 - utd-ir.tdl.org
Today in the Internet era, communication service providers face tremendous constraints on
increasing capital expenditures and operating expenses compared to the much less income …

Enhancing availability of radio-based applications using multiple compute instances and virtualized network function accelerators at cloud edge locations

N Krasilnikov, TJM DeRego, YA Liu… - US Patent …, 2024 - Google Patents
State information of a radio-based application, used to process messages of the application,
is made accessible from a first compute instance and a second compute instance at a …

Network traffic management at radio-based application pipeline processing servers

D Gupta, B Wojtowicz, UB Shevade… - US Patent 11,916,999, 2024 - Google Patents
At a radio-based application pipeline processing server at which a portion of a distributed
unit (DU) of a radio-based application is implemented, a particular networking hardware …