Network Slicing and Softwarization: A Survey on Principles, Enabling Technologies, and Solutions

By Ibrahim Afolabi, Tarik Taleb, Konstantinos Samdanis, A. Ksentini, Hannu Flinck. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2018

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Hybrid SDN Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches (2018, background): “Virtualization helps to reduce network costs, while improving network performance and efficiency [341].”
6G Wireless Networks: Vision, Requirements, Architecture, and Key Technologies (2019, methodology): “AI-Enabled Autonomous Networks Softwarization, cloudization, virtualization, and slicing are still important characteristics of autonomous networks; thus, software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), and network slicing (NS) [8], first introduced to design the 5G network”
Holistic Network Virtualization and Pervasive Network Intelligence for 6G (2023, background): “of IoT [32], and another survey introduces the key enabling technologies and design principles of network slicing [21].”
Edge Computing in Industrial Internet of Things: Architecture, Advances and Challenges (2020, background): “The realization of three major 5G application scenarios, i.e., ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC), massive machine-type communication (mMTC), and enhanced mobile broad-band (eMBB) [117], is based on the indispensable network slicing feature of 5G.”
Blockchain for 5G and Beyond Networks: A State of the Art Survey (2019, background): “networks operating on the same physical hardware [121].”
Survey on Network Slicing for Internet of Things Realization in 5G Networks (2021, methodology): “Future research areas of network slicing with open research problems are highlighted in [19], [21], [22], [25], [26], [28], [29].”
Edge Artificial Intelligence for 6G: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Applications (2021, background): “We hope these results can stimulate more service-driven resource allocation methods (e.g., network slicing [287]) and optimization approaches (e.g., multi-objective optimization [288]).”
Ultra-Low Latency (ULL) Networks: The IEEE TSN and IETF DetNet Standards and Related 5G ULL Research (2018, background): “However, such NFV mechanisms would require hypervisor and control plane management [371]–[375].”
A Survey on Beyond 5G Network With the Advent of 6G: Architecture and Emerging Technologies (2020, methodology): “Network slicing uses the concept of NFV and SDN for providing virtualization and ﬂexibility [68].”
Blockchain for Internet of Things: A Survey (2019, background): “In addition to SDN and NFV, the appearance of network slicing technologies [57] brings the agility and flexibility of networks to support different functional and performance”
Quantum Machine Learning for 6G Communication Networks: State-of-the-Art and Vision for the Future (2019, methodology): “To enable these and other services, the 5G network infrastructure is based on the revolutionary novel concepts of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) [51] and end-to-end Network Slicing (NS) [52].”
User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO Networks: A Survey of Opportunities, Challenges and Solutions (2021, background): “In this context, network slicing [173] may play a role in determining the size of the serving cluster.”
Follow Me at the Edge: Mobility-Aware Dynamic Service Placement for Mobile Edge Computing (2018, methodology): “rantee service continuity when users travel across different edges, an efﬁcient mobility management scheme should be employed in the network edge. An emerging technique, software-deﬁned network (SDN) [8] is proposed to provide seamless and transparent mobility support to users. In the SDN based fog ”
Edge-Computing-Enabled Smart Cities: A Comprehensive Survey (2019, neutral): “Network slicing exploits SDN and NFV to separate the control plane from the data plane [214].”
5G network slicing using SDN and NFV- A survey of taxonomy, architectures and future challenges (2019, methodology): “. 5G network softwarization Network softwarization is an approach that involves the use of software programming to design, implement, deploy, manage and maintain network equipment/components/services [20,55] . Net- work softwarization aims to deliver 5G services and applications with greater agility”