SoftNet: A software defined decentralized mobile network architecture toward 5G

Hucheng Wang; Shanzhi Chen; Hui Xu; Ming Ai; Yan Shi

doi:10.1109/MNET.2015.7064898

SoftNet: A software defined decentralized mobile network architecture toward 5G

Hucheng Wang, Shanzhi Chen, Hui Xu, Ming Ai, Yan Shi

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Mobile cloud computing and other new emerging communication paradigms such as mobile social networking and Internet-of-Things, have brought challenges in flexibility, efficiency, and scalability to the current LTE network. Inspired by thinking of the fundamental mechanisms in LTE as reasons causing those problems, SoftNet, a software defined decentralized mobile network architecture toward 5G, is proposed in this article following principles proposed for designing an efficient and scalable network. The analysis of the working mechanisms of SoftNet, including its dynamically defined architecture, decentralized mobility management, distributed data forwarding, and multi-RATs coordination, show that SoftNet has improved system capacity and performance. Further, simulations are conducted to demonstrate that signaling cost in SoftNet, as an important performance metric, can be decreased significantly compared with LTE networks.

Original language	English
Article number	7064898
Pages (from-to)	16-22
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Network
Volume	29
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2015.7064898
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2015
Externally published	Yes

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