Future mode of operations for 5G – The SELFNET approach enabled by SDN/NFV

• Published in: Computer standards and interfaces Vol. 54; pp. 229 - 246
• Main Authors: Neves, Pedro, Calé, Rui, Costa, Mário, Gaspar, Gonçalo, Alcaraz-Calero, Jose, Wang, Qi, Nightingale, James, Bernini, Giacomo, Carrozzo, Gino, Valdivieso, Ángel, García Villalba, Luis Javier, Barros, Maria, Gravas, Anastasius, Santos, José, Maia, Ricardo, Preto, Ricardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01-11-2017; Elsevier BV
• Subjects: Autonomic management; Indicators; Infrastructure; Network Functions Virtualization; Performance evaluation; Self-Organizing Networks; Software Defined Networking; Autonomic management; Network Functions Virtualization; 5G; Software Defined Networking; Self-Organizing Networks
• ISSN: 0920-5489; 1872-7018
• DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2016.12.008

The 5G infrastructure initiative in Europe115G Infrastructure Public Private Partnership, [Online]. Available here: https://5g-ppp.eu/ has agreed a number of challenging key performance indicators (KPIs) to significantly enhance the user experience and support a number of use cases with very demanding requirements on the network infrastructure. At the same time there is high pressure on the reduction of the operational expenditure (OPEX). A contribution to meeting the KPIs and to reduce OPEX is to evolve the management of the network into a fully autonomic and intelligent framework. Based on advanced technologies, such as Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the EU H2020 project SELFNET (https://selfnet-5g.eu/) is proposing an advanced network management framework to achieve these objectives.
•Autonomic network management framework to achieve self-organizing capabilities.•Machine-based, human-assisted network management paradigm.•Leverage on NFV, SDN, SON and Cloud Computing standards & interfaces.