Resource Slicing in Virtual Wireless Networks: A Survey

By Matías Richart, J. Baliosian, J. Serrat, J. Gorricho. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2016

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New architectural and design approaches for radio access networks have appeared with the introduction of network virtualization in the wireless domain. One of these approaches splits the wireless network infrastructure into isolated virtual slices under their own management, requirements, and characteristics. Despite the advances in wireless virtualization, there are still many open issues regarding the resource allocation and isolation of wireless slices. Because of the dynamics and shared nature of the wireless medium, guaranteeing that the traffic on one slice will not affect the traffic on the others has proven to be difficult. In this paper, we focus on the detailed definition of the problem, discussing its challenges. We also provide a review of existing works that deal with the problem, analyzing how new trends such as software defined networking and network function virtualization can assist in the slicing. We will finally describe some research challenges on this topic.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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Citations in the corpus

• Survey on Network Slicing for Internet of Things Realization in 5G Networks (2021, background): “Future research areas of network slicing with open research problems are highlighted in [19], [21], [22], [25], [26], [28], [29].”
• Network Slicing and Softwarization: A Survey on Principles, Enabling Technologies, and Solutions (2018, background): “To the best knowledge of the authors, there are no detailed surveys on the topic of network slicing in the literature, except those presented in [6], [7], [9].”