Telecommunications Science ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (10): 129-133.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1000-0801.2014.10.019

• Operating technology wid-angle • Previous Articles     Next Articles

Five Open Problems on Designing 5G Network Architecture

Xiaodong Duan,Tao Sun,Wei Chen,Xiaoyong Han,Lu Lu   

  1. Department of Network Technologies, China Mobile Research Institute, Beijing 100053, China
  • Online:2014-10-15 Published:2017-06-29

Abstract:

5G network architecture is an important topic in the industry. Virtualization, cloud computing and SDN are new technologies that enables innovative architecture design. Motivated from requirement, five key questions were listed: centralization or distribution, access network and core network convergence, network orchestration, NFV& SDN impact to the architecture, evolution or revolution. Some initial analysis was provided.

Key words: 5G, network architecture, network function virtualization, software defined networking, virtualization, packet network evolution

No Suggested Reading articles found!