A network slice for every service

Project Information

5GPagoda

Grant agreement ID: 723172

DOI 10.3030/723172

Project closed

EC signature date 22 June 2016

Start date 1 July 2016

End date 30 June 2019

Funded under

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

Total cost € 2 248 057,50

EU contribution € 1 499 807,50

Coordinated by

AALTO KORKEAKOULUSAATIO SR
Finland

Deliverables

Documents, reports (16)

D2.5: Final report on the overall architecture definition

This deliverable provides the final version of the overall architecture.

D5.3: Final Report on Evaluation Methodology, Use cases, Testbeds, Experimentation, Evaluation and Demonstration

D5.1-3 provides reports on the achievements made with regard to the evaluation methodology, testbed integration, and use case evaluation and validation.

D6.2: First year report on standardization, dissemination and exploitation achievements

D6.2-4 deliverables report on the standardization, dissemination and exploitation activities achieved during the corresponding period.

D5.2: First Report on Evaluation Methodology and its evaluation with use cases

D5.1-3 provides reports on the achievements made with regard to the evaluation methodology, testbed integration, and use case evaluation and validation.

D5.1: Initial Report on the integration of the Testbeds, Experimentation and Evaluation

D5.1-3 provides reports on the achievements made with regard to the evaluation methodology, testbed integration, and use case evaluation and validation.

D3.2: First slice components

This deliverable will include the in-detail specification of the lightweight core network, of the programmable data plane, of the emerging network slice and of the in-service orchestration mechanisms.

D6.5: Report on innovation achieved and forthcoming industrial exploitation

This deliverable reports on the stakeholders partnerships have been developed with and the made agreements. A business plan will be structured to sustain the outcomes beyond the life of the project.

D4.2: Network Slice orchestration

This deliverable will include the detailed inter- and intra-slice orchestration functional blocks of the 5G!Pagoda orchestrator.

D3.3: Final slice components

This deliverable will update the first slice components with the various add-ons such as the application of the lightweight core network and data path for specific use cases and the algorithms for state information sharing.

D2.1: Use case scenarios and technical system requirements definition

This deliverable defines the reference scenarios, use cases, technical system requirements and overall architecture guidelines for 5G!Pagoda.

D4.3: End-to-end Network slice

This deliverable will define and specify needed interfaces and procedures to extend core network slices to the RAN part. It will also include solutions to enable computing capabilities at the edge.

D4.1: Scalability-driven management system

This deliverable will include the definition, specifications and design of management functions of 5G!Pagoda orchestration system solving the scalability issues due the high number of network slices.

D6.4: Final report on standardization, dissemination and exploitation achievements

D6.2-4 deliverables report on the standardization, dissemination and exploitation activities achieved during the corresponding period.

D3.1: Slice components design

This deliverable will include the definition and design of the various components, functions and interfaces which constitute the slice architecture.

D2.3: Initial report on the overall system architecture definition

This deliverable provides the first version of the overall 5G!Pagoda architecture.

D6.3: Second year report on standardization, dissemination and exploitation achievements

D6.2-4 deliverables report on the standardization, dissemination and exploitation activities achieved during the corresponding period.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

D6.1: Website and online collaboration platform

This deliverable will report on the communication and online collaboration platform of 5G!Pagoda. By the due month of the deliverable, the project web site as well as collaboration tools will be fully operational and a Content Management System will be available.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

D1.2: Open Data Management Plan

This deliverable reports the consortium’s plan for joining the open data pilot.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

On Enabling 5G Automotive Systems Using Follow Me Edge-Cloud Concept

Author(s): Abdelkader Aissioui, Adlen Ksentini, Abdelhak Mourad Gueroui, Tarik Taleb
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Issue 67/6, 2018, Page(s) 5302-5316, ISSN 0018-9545
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2018.2805369

Conformal Mapping for Optimal Network Slice Planning Based on Canonical Domains

Author(s): Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 36/3, 2018, Page(s) 519-528, ISSN 0733-8716
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2815436

Coalitional Game for the Creation of Efficient Virtual Core Network Slices in 5G Mobile Systems

Author(s): Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Adlen Ksentini, Hannu Flinck
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 36/3, 2018, Page(s) 469-484, ISSN 0733-8716
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2815398

Optimal VNFs Placement in CDN Slicing Over Multi-Cloud Environment

Author(s): Ilias Benkacem, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa, Hannu Flinck
Published in: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Issue 36/3, 2018, Page(s) 616-627, ISSN 0733-8716
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2018.2815441

Network Slicing and Softwarization: A Survey on Principles, Enabling Technologies, and Solutions

Author(s): Ibrahim Afolabi, Tarik Taleb, Konstantinos Samdanis, Adlen Ksentini, Hannu Flinck
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Issue 20/3, 2018, Page(s) 2429-2453, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2815638

Network Slices toward 5G Communications: Slicing the LTE Network

Author(s): Kostas Katsalis, Navid Nikaein, Eryk Schiller, Adlen Ksentini, Torsten Braun
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 55/8, 2017, Page(s) 146-154, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600936

Integrating energy efficiency analysis of massive MIMO-based C-RAN

Author(s): Di Zhang, Muhammad Tariq, Shahid Mumtaz, Jonathan Rodriguez, Takuro Sato
Published in: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Issue 2016/1, 2016, ISSN 1687-1499
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1186/s13638-016-0778-y

A Survey on the Placement of Virtual Resources and Virtual Network Functions

Author(s): Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Tarik Taleb
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Issue 21/2, 2019, Page(s) 1409-1434, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2884835

A Complete LTE Mathematical Framework for the Network Slice Planning of the EPC

Author(s): Jonathan Prados, Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Juan M. Lopez-Soler
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019, Page(s) 1-1, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2018.2890235

Traffic Steering for Service Function Chaining

Author(s): Hajar Hantouti, Nabil Benamar, Tarik Taleb, Abdelquoddous Laghrissi
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Issue 21/1, 2019, Page(s) 487-507, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2018.2862404

PPCS: A Progressive Popularity-Aware Caching Scheme for Edge-Based Cache Redundancy Avoidance in Information-Centric Networks

Author(s): Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Jiang Liu, Zhenni Pan, Ilias Benkacem, Toshitaka Tsuda, Tarik Taleb, Shigeru Shimamoto, Takuro Sato
Published in: Sensors, Issue 19/3, 2019, Page(s) 694, ISSN 1424-8220
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/s19030694

End-to-end Network Slicing for 5G Mobile Networks

Author(s): Akihiro Nakao, Ping Du, Yoshiaki Kiriha, Fabrizio Granelli, Anteneh Atumo Gebremariam, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa
Published in: Journal of Information Processing, Issue 25/0, 2017, Page(s) 153-163, ISSN 1882-6652
Publisher: Information Processing Society of Japan
DOI: 10.2197/ipsjjip.25.153

Mobile Edge Computing Potential in Making Cities Smarter

Author(s): Tarik Taleb, Sunny Dutta, Adlen Ksentini, Muddesar Iqbal, Hannu Flinck
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 55/3, 2017, Page(s) 38-43, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600249CM

PERMIT: Network Slicing for Personalized 5G Mobile Telecommunications

Author(s): Tarik Taleb, Badr Mada, Marius-Iulian Corici, Akihiro Nakao, Hannu Flinck
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 55/5, 2017, Page(s) 88-93, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1600947

On Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Survey of the Emerging 5G Network Edge Cloud Architecture and Orchestration

Author(s): Tarik Taleb, Konstantinos Samdanis, Badr Mada, Hannu Flinck, Sunny Dutta, Dario Sabella
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Issue 19/3, 2017, Page(s) 1657-1681, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2705720

Towards 5G Network Slicing over Multiple-Domains

Author(s): Ibrahim AFOLABI, Adlen KSENTINI, Miloud BAGAA, Tarik TALEB, Marius CORICI, Akihiro NAKAO
Published in: IEICE Transactions on Communications, 2017, ISSN 0916-8516
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1587/transcom.2016NNI0002

"""Anything as a Service"" for 5G Mobile Systems"

Author(s): Tarik Taleb, Adlen Ksentini, Riku Jantti
Published in: IEEE Network, Issue 30/6, 2016, Page(s) 84-91, ISSN 0890-8044
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2016.1500244RP

Providing ultra-short latency to user-centric 5G applications at the mobile network edge

Author(s): I. Farris, T. Taleb, H. Flinck, A. Iera
Published in: Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2017, Page(s) e3169, ISSN 2161-3915
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/ett.3169

Toward Enforcing Network Slicing on RAN: Flexibility and Resources Abstraction

Author(s): Adlen Ksentini, Navid Nikaein
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 55/6, 2017, Page(s) 102-108, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2017.1601119

Conference proceedings (22)

On evaluating different trends for virtualized and SDN-ready mobile network

Author(s): Imad Alawe, Adlen Ksentini, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Philippe Bertin, Amelie Kerbellec
Published in: 2017 IEEE 6th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5090-4026-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CloudNet.2017.8071534

Low latency MEC framework for SDN-based LTE/LTE-A networks

Author(s): Anta Huang, Navid Nikaein, Tore Stenbock, Adlen Ksentini, Christian Bonnet
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4673-8999-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996359

On the scalability of 5G core network: The AMF case

Author(s): Imad Alawe, Yassine Hadjadj-Aoul, Adlen Ksentini, Philippe Bertin, Davy Darche
Published in: 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-4790-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC.2018.8319194

Balancing between Cost and Availability for CDNaaS Resource Placement

Author(s): Louiza Yala, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Giorgio Lucarelli, Adlen Ksentini
Published in: GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2017, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-5090-5019-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254051

A Novel Compact Header for Traffic Steering in Service Function Chaining

Author(s): Hajar Hantouti, Nabil Benamar, Tarik Taleb
Published in: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-3180-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422597

SDN enhancements for the sliced, deep programmable 5G core

Author(s): Fabian Eichhorn, Marius-Iulian Corici, Thomas Magedanz, Ping Du, Yoshiaki Kiriha, Akihiro Nakao
Published in: 2017 13th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 2017, Page(s) 1-4, ISBN 978-3-901882-98-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/CNSM.2017.8256006

Canonical domains for optimal network slice planning

Author(s): Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa
Published in: 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-1734-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377336

End-to-end network slicing enabled through network function virtualization

Author(s): Ibrahim Afolabi, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Hannu Flinck
Published in: 2017 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2017, Page(s) 30-35, ISBN 978-1-5386-3070-9
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN.2017.8088594

Efficient virtual evolved packet core deployment across multiple cloud domains

Author(s): Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Adlen Ksentini
Published in: 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-1734-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377297

DASMO: A scalable approach to network slices management and orchestration

Author(s): Slawomir Kuklinski, Lechoslaw Tomaszewski
Published in: NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-3416-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406279

Ensuring End-to-End QoS Based on Multi-Paths Routing Using SDN Technology

Author(s): Diego Leonel Cadette Dutra, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Konstantinos Samdanis
Published in: GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5090-5019-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254076

Efficient Transcoding and Streaming Mechanism in Multiple Cloud Domains

Author(s): Badr Eddine Mada, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb
Published in: GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5090-5019-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254123

Performance benchmark of transcoding as a virtual network function in CDN as a service slicing

Author(s): Ilias Benkacem, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa, Hannu Flinck
Published in: 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-1734-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2018.8377402

Towards Edge Slicing: VNF Placement Algorithms for a Dynamic & Realistic Edge Cloud Environment

Author(s): Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa, Hannu Flinck
Published in: GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5090-5019-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2017.8254653

A Queuing Based Dynamic Auto Scaling Algorithm for the LTE EPC Control Plane

Author(s): Jonathan Prados-Garzon, Abdelquoddouss Laghrissi, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb
Published in: 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-5386-4727-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2018.8648023

UAVs Traffic Control Based on Multi-Access Edge Computing

Author(s): Oussama Bekkouche, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa
Published in: 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-5386-4727-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2018.8647421

A reference architecture for network slicing

Author(s): Slawomir Kuklinski, Lechoslaw Tomaszewski, Tomasz Osinski, Adlen Ksentini, Pantelis A. Frangoudis, Eleonora Cau, Marius Corici
Published in: 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops (NetSoft), 2018, Page(s) 217-221, ISBN 978-1-5386-4633-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/netsoft.2018.8460057

Integrated ICN and CDN Slice as a Service

Author(s): Ilias Benkacem, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Quang Nguyen, Tsuda Toshitaka, Takuro Sato
Published in: 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018, Page(s) 1-7, ISBN 978-1-5386-4727-1
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/glocom.2018.8648051

QoE estimation-based server benchmarking for virtual video delivery platform

Author(s): Lauri Koskimies, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4673-8999-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996445

Lightweight service replication for ultra-short latency applications in mobile edge networks

Author(s): Ivan Farris, Tarik Taleb, Antonio Iera, Hannu Flinck
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4673-8999-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996357

Optimizing service replication for mobile delay-sensitive applications in 5G edge network

Author(s): Ivan Farris, Tarik Taleb, Miloud Bagaa, Hannu Flick
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4673-8999-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7997282

Content delivery network slicing: QoE and cost awareness

Author(s): Sara Retal, Miloud Bagaa, Tarik Taleb, Hannu Flinck
Published in: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017, Page(s) 1-6, ISBN 978-1-4673-8999-0
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2017.7996499