The combination of recent emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and network programmability (SDN) gave birth to the Network Slicing revolution. 5G networks consist of multi-tenant infrastructures capable of offering leased network "slices" to new customers (e.g., vertical industries) enabling a new telecom business model: Slice-as-aService (SlaaS). In this paper, we aim i ) to study the slicing admission control problem by means of a multi-queuing system for heterogeneous tenant requests, ii ) to derive its statistical behavior model, and iii ) to provide a utility-based admission control optimization. Our results analyze the capability of the proposed SlaaS system to be approximately Markovian and evaluate its performance as compared to legacy solutions.
@article{arxiv.1901.06399,
title = {A Utility-Driven Multi-Queue Admission Control Solution for Network Slicing},
author = {Bin Han and Vincenzo Sciancalepore and Di Feng and Xavier Costa-Perez and Hans D. Schotten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06399},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
In Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2019 (the published version has a minor flaw where the notation W_n is used both for waiting time and event of joining queue, which has been corrected in this version of preprint)