Softwarization of Mobile Networks

Softwarization of Mobile Networks: Technologies, Protocols and Applications explains how these technologies are being incorporated into the basic architectural frameworks of emerging mobile networks, leading to a significant transformation of the network architecture and communication protocols. The book discusses the latest research trends in this field and explains how the usage of SDN & NFV in Mobile Networks enables new services and features such as Network Slicing, Multiple Radio Access, Broadband-Broadcast Convergence, Efficient Content Delivery, and also brings efficiency to some of the existing ones.

Mobility Management, Load Balancing, Interference Management, Dual Connectivity and other topics are covered. The book also elaborates on the relevant protocols and architectural aspects of the mobile networks, especially Fifth Generation (5G) Mobile Networks, which is currently under development in various Standard Development Organizations, such as, 3GPP, IEEE, ITU.

• Explains how SDN and NFV technologies are being applied in upcoming mobile networks, focusing both on the Radio Access Networks as well as the Core Network
• Gives new perspectives on SDN based control and management of emerging Multi-RAT Mobile Networks, describing how SDN and NFV technologies can be used for an elegant and flexible architecture/design of mobile networks
• Explains how SDN and NFV enable the development of efficient algorithms and implementation schemes for some of the key 5G requirements, such as Network Slicing and Resource Management
• Presents the merits and limitations of SDN and NFV based architectures and protocols