Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network Slicing
Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a hot research niche exploiting the synergy between Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which can greatly benefit of the upcoming development of 5G technologies. The variety of end-devices, applications, and Radio Acc...
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| author | Ramon Sanchez-Iborra José Santa Jorge Gallego-Madrid Stefan Covaci Antonio Skarmeta |
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| description | Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a hot research niche exploiting the synergy between Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which can greatly benefit of the upcoming development of 5G technologies. The variety of end-devices, applications, and Radio Access Technologies (RATs) in IoV calls for new networking schemes that assure the Quality of Service (QoS) demanded by the users. To this end, network slicing techniques enable traffic differentiation with the aim of ensuring flow isolation, resource assignment, and network scalability. This work fills the gap of 5G network slicing for IoV and validates it in a realistic vehicular scenario. It offers an accurate bandwidth control with a full flow-isolation, which is essential for vehicular critical systems. The development is based on a distributed Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) architecture, which provides flexibility for the dynamic placement of the Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) in charge of managing network traffic. The solution is able to integrate heterogeneous radio technologies such as cellular networks and specific IoT communications with potential in the vehicular sector, creating isolated network slices without risking the Core Network (CN) scalability. The validation results demonstrate the framework capabilities of short and predictable slice-creation time, performance/QoS assurance and service scalability of up to one million connected devices. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-68157f01ee734e57beeec572665a3a1b2022-12-22T02:10:20ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202019-07-011914310710.3390/s19143107s19143107Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network SlicingRamon Sanchez-Iborra0José Santa1Jorge Gallego-Madrid2Stefan Covaci3Antonio Skarmeta4Department of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, SpainDepartment of Electronics, Computer Technology and Projects, Technical University of Cartagena, 30202 Cartagena, SpainDepartment of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, SpainNext Generation Networks (AV), Department of Telecommunication Systems, Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, GermanyDepartment of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, SpainInternet of Vehicles (IoV) is a hot research niche exploiting the synergy between Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) and the Internet of Things (IoT), which can greatly benefit of the upcoming development of 5G technologies. The variety of end-devices, applications, and Radio Access Technologies (RATs) in IoV calls for new networking schemes that assure the Quality of Service (QoS) demanded by the users. To this end, network slicing techniques enable traffic differentiation with the aim of ensuring flow isolation, resource assignment, and network scalability. This work fills the gap of 5G network slicing for IoV and validates it in a realistic vehicular scenario. It offers an accurate bandwidth control with a full flow-isolation, which is essential for vehicular critical systems. The development is based on a distributed Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) architecture, which provides flexibility for the dynamic placement of the Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs) in charge of managing network traffic. The solution is able to integrate heterogeneous radio technologies such as cellular networks and specific IoT communications with potential in the vehicular sector, creating isolated network slices without risking the Core Network (CN) scalability. The validation results demonstrate the framework capabilities of short and predictable slice-creation time, performance/QoS assurance and service scalability of up to one million connected devices.https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/14/3107network slicingvehicular networks5GITSIoV |
| spellingShingle | Ramon Sanchez-Iborra José Santa Jorge Gallego-Madrid Stefan Covaci Antonio Skarmeta Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network Slicing Sensors network slicing vehicular networks 5G ITS IoV |
| title | Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network Slicing |
| title_full | Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network Slicing |
| title_fullStr | Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network Slicing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network Slicing |
| title_short | Empowering the Internet of Vehicles with Multi-RAT 5G Network Slicing |
| title_sort | empowering the internet of vehicles with multi rat 5g network slicing |
| topic | network slicing vehicular networks 5G ITS IoV |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/19/14/3107 |
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