Virtualization based software-defined radio access network architecture

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Abstract

Mobile wireless networks have been rapidly developing with the rapid growth of demand for mobile data. However, the closed and ossified properties increasingly impede progress due to difficulties with convergence among heterogeneous wireless networks and the lack of customized network characteristics for services. A virtualization based software-defined radio access network architecture is given here to address these problems. This paper describes the framework architecture designs of the key systems for the SDN control strategy, virtualization strategies, and programmability strategies. The architecture provides flexible control, convergent evolution, open programmability and resilient customizability of radio access networks.

Keywords radio access network software-defined network network virtualization network architecture

Issue Date: 15 April 2014

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	Mao YANG
	Xu YANG
	Yong LI
	Depeng JIN
	Li SU
	Lieguang ZENG

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Mao YANG,Xu YANG,Yong LI, et al. Virtualization based software-defined radio access network architecture[J]. Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology), 2014, 54(4): 443-448.

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