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Authors:
Sokratis Barmpounakis
Alexandros Kaloxylos
Panagiotis Spapis
Panagis Magdalinos
Nancy Alonistioti
Chan Zhou
Keywords: 5G cellular networks; data analytics; traffic steering; mobility management.
Abstract:
Data analytics has been widely accepted as a key enabler for 5G cellular networks. They can be applied in order to improve the performance of several mechanisms ranging from network management and traffic engineering to radio access network selection and traffic steering. Towards this end, this paper presents three supplementary mechanisms and provides a mapping of the required new functional entities into the latest version of the 5G architecture as specified by 3GPP. Additionally, it evaluates the performance of one of the mechanisms that targets the minimization of the information collected and used by the data analytics engine. All in all, this paper provides a holistic framework based on the use of data analytics that addresses several key 5G-oriented, resource management and traffic steering challenges.
Pages: 101 to 114
Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2018. Used with permission.
Publication date: December 30, 2018
Published in: journal
ISSN: 1942-2601