Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure

Sousa, Bruno; Cordeiro, Luis; Simões, Paulo; Edmonds, Andrew; Ruiz, Santiago; Carella, Giuseppe A.; Corici, Marius; Nikaein, Navid; Gomes, Andre S.; Schiller, Eryk; Braun, Torsten; Bohnert, Thomas Michael

doi:10.21256/zhaw-1815

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Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure
Authors:	Sousa, Bruno Cordeiro, Luis Simões, Paulo Edmonds, Andrew Ruiz, Santiago Carella, Giuseppe A. Corici, Marius Nikaein, Navid Gomes, Andre S. Schiller, Eryk Braun, Torsten Bohnert, Thomas Michael
DOI:	10.21256/zhaw-1815 10.1109/TNSM.2016.2598354
Published in:	IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
Volume(Issue):	13
Issue:	3
Page(s):	547
Pages to:	563
Issue Date:	5-Aug-2016
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	IEEE
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	New York
ISSN:	1932-4537
Language:	English
Subjects:	InIT; SE; Cloud; Nfv
Subject (DDC):	004: Computer science
Abstract:	Cloud computing enables the on-demand delivery of resources for a multitude of services and gives the opportunity for small agile companies to compete with large industries. In the telco world, cloud computing is currently mostly used by mobile network operators (MNO) for hosting non-critical support services and selling cloud services such as applications and data storage. MNOs are investigating the use of cloud computing to deliver key telecommunication services in the access and core networks. Without this, MNOs lose the opportunities of both combining this with over-the-top (OTT) and value-added services to their fundamental service offerings and leveraging cost-effective commodity hardware. Being able to leverage cloud computing technology effectively for the telco world is the focus of mobile cloud networking (MCN). This paper presents the key results of MCN integrated project that includes its architecture advancements, prototype implementation, and evaluation. Results show the efficiency and the simplicity that a MNO can deploy and manage the complete service lifecycle of fully cloudified, composed services that combine OTT/IT- and mobile-network-based services running on commodity hardware. The extensive performance evaluation of MCN using two key proof-of-concept scenarios that compose together many services to deliver novel converged elastic, on-demand mobile-based but innovative OTT services proves the feasibility of such fully virtualized deployments. Results show that it is beneficial to extend cloud computing to telco usage and run fully cloudified mobile-network-based systems with clear advantages and new service opportunities for MNOs and end-users.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/3500
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	CC BY-NC-ND 2.0: Attribution - Non commercial - No derivatives 2.0 Generic
Departement:	School of Engineering
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Computer Science (InIT)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen School of Engineering

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Sousa, B., Cordeiro, L., Simões, P., Edmonds, A., Ruiz, S., Carella, G. A., Corici, M., Nikaein, N., Gomes, A. S., Schiller, E., Braun, T., & Bohnert, T. M. (2016). Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13(3), 547–563. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1815

Sousa, B. et al. (2016) ‘Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure’, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 13(3), pp. 547–563. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1815.

B. Sousa et al., “Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure,” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 547–563, Aug. 2016, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1815.

SOUSA, Bruno, Luis CORDEIRO, Paulo SIMÕES, Andrew EDMONDS, Santiago RUIZ, Giuseppe A. CARELLA, Marius CORICI, Navid NIKAEIN, Andre S. GOMES, Eryk SCHILLER, Torsten BRAUN und Thomas Michael BOHNERT, 2016. Toward a fully cloudified mobile network infrastructure. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 5 August 2016. Bd. 13, Nr. 3, S. 547–563. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-1815

Sousa, Bruno, Luis Cordeiro, Paulo Simões, Andrew Edmonds, Santiago Ruiz, Giuseppe A. Carella, Marius Corici, et al. 2016. “Toward a Fully Cloudified Mobile Network Infrastructure.” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management 13 (3): 547–63. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1815.

Sousa, Bruno, et al. “Toward a Fully Cloudified Mobile Network Infrastructure.” IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 13, no. 3, Aug. 2016, pp. 547–63, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1815.