The Internet of Things(IoTs)has become an essential component of the 5th Generation(5G)network and beyond,accelerating the transition to digital society.The increasing signaling traffic generated by billions of IoT de...The Internet of Things(IoTs)has become an essential component of the 5th Generation(5G)network and beyond,accelerating the transition to digital society.The increasing signaling traffic generated by billions of IoT devices has placed significant strain on the 5G Core network(5GC)control plane.To address this issue,the 3rd Gener-ation Partnership Project(3GPP)first proposed a Service-Based Architecture(SBA),intending to create a flexible,scalable,and agile cloud-native 5GC.However,considering the coupling of protocol states and functions,there are still many challenges to fully utilize the benefits of the cloud computing and orchestrate the 5GC in a cloud-native manner.We propose a Message-Level StateLess Design(ML-SLD)to provide a cloud-native 5GC from an architectural standpoint in this paper.Firstly,we propose an innovative mechanism for servitization of the N2 interface to maintain the connection between Radio Access Network(RAN)and the 5GC,avoiding interruptions and dropouts of large-scale user data.Furthermore,we propose an On-demand Message Forwarding(OMF)al-gorithm to reduce the impact of cloud fluctuations on the performance of cloud-native 5GC.Finally,we create a prototype that is based on the OpenAirInterface(OAI)5G core network projects,with all Network Functions(NFs)packaged in dockers and deployed in a kubernetes-based cloud environment.Several experiments have been built with UERANSIM and Chaosblade simulation tools.The findings demonstrate the viability and efficiency of our proposed methods.展开更多
Open Air Interface(OAI)仿真平台是评估LTE和LTE-Advanced系统,测试相关的算法和策略的有效工具。本文首先对比现有仿真技术并分析其局限性,阐述OAI仿真平台的软件框架,分析OAI平台下可实现的LTE协议栈及演进分组核心网的主要功能。最...Open Air Interface(OAI)仿真平台是评估LTE和LTE-Advanced系统,测试相关的算法和策略的有效工具。本文首先对比现有仿真技术并分析其局限性,阐述OAI仿真平台的软件框架,分析OAI平台下可实现的LTE协议栈及演进分组核心网的主要功能。最后,本文简要分析OAI仿真平台的应用领域及并对未来做展望。展开更多
It is extremely challenging for the 5G User Equipment(UE)to meet the requirement of low-latency data transmission with higher achievable data rates.And user plane processing of 5G protocol stack(PS)is one of the domin...It is extremely challenging for the 5G User Equipment(UE)to meet the requirement of low-latency data transmission with higher achievable data rates.And user plane processing of 5G protocol stack(PS)is one of the dominating components for end-to-end data transmission in the network system.In this paper,a cross-layer buffer management scheme(CLBM)is proposed.CLBM adopts a zero-copy technique for protocol data unit(PDU)processing between protocol layers and allows to improve the memory operation efficiency significantly with reduced processing latency and CPU usage.Moreover,the PS performance profiling(PSperf)tool,a general evaluation framework for the performance measurement and analysis of PS,is implemented based on the OpenAirInterface(OAI)5G platform.The evaluation result shows that compared with the PS of OAI the CLBM strategy reduces the CPU usage of RLC,PDCP,and MAC layer processing significantly up to 20.6%,63.4%,and 38.8%,respectively.In result,the processing delay of the whole user plane of PS also has been reduced distinctly at various offered traffic load.展开更多
基金funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2019YFB1803301Beijing Natural Science Foundation(L202002).
文摘The Internet of Things(IoTs)has become an essential component of the 5th Generation(5G)network and beyond,accelerating the transition to digital society.The increasing signaling traffic generated by billions of IoT devices has placed significant strain on the 5G Core network(5GC)control plane.To address this issue,the 3rd Gener-ation Partnership Project(3GPP)first proposed a Service-Based Architecture(SBA),intending to create a flexible,scalable,and agile cloud-native 5GC.However,considering the coupling of protocol states and functions,there are still many challenges to fully utilize the benefits of the cloud computing and orchestrate the 5GC in a cloud-native manner.We propose a Message-Level StateLess Design(ML-SLD)to provide a cloud-native 5GC from an architectural standpoint in this paper.Firstly,we propose an innovative mechanism for servitization of the N2 interface to maintain the connection between Radio Access Network(RAN)and the 5GC,avoiding interruptions and dropouts of large-scale user data.Furthermore,we propose an On-demand Message Forwarding(OMF)al-gorithm to reduce the impact of cloud fluctuations on the performance of cloud-native 5GC.Finally,we create a prototype that is based on the OpenAirInterface(OAI)5G core network projects,with all Network Functions(NFs)packaged in dockers and deployed in a kubernetes-based cloud environment.Several experiments have been built with UERANSIM and Chaosblade simulation tools.The findings demonstrate the viability and efficiency of our proposed methods.
文摘Open Air Interface(OAI)仿真平台是评估LTE和LTE-Advanced系统,测试相关的算法和策略的有效工具。本文首先对比现有仿真技术并分析其局限性,阐述OAI仿真平台的软件框架,分析OAI平台下可实现的LTE协议栈及演进分组核心网的主要功能。最后,本文简要分析OAI仿真平台的应用领域及并对未来做展望。
基金Supported by the National Key R&D Project of China(No.2020YFB1807803)。
文摘It is extremely challenging for the 5G User Equipment(UE)to meet the requirement of low-latency data transmission with higher achievable data rates.And user plane processing of 5G protocol stack(PS)is one of the dominating components for end-to-end data transmission in the network system.In this paper,a cross-layer buffer management scheme(CLBM)is proposed.CLBM adopts a zero-copy technique for protocol data unit(PDU)processing between protocol layers and allows to improve the memory operation efficiency significantly with reduced processing latency and CPU usage.Moreover,the PS performance profiling(PSperf)tool,a general evaluation framework for the performance measurement and analysis of PS,is implemented based on the OpenAirInterface(OAI)5G platform.The evaluation result shows that compared with the PS of OAI the CLBM strategy reduces the CPU usage of RLC,PDCP,and MAC layer processing significantly up to 20.6%,63.4%,and 38.8%,respectively.In result,the processing delay of the whole user plane of PS also has been reduced distinctly at various offered traffic load.
