Overview
- Presents research on dynamic resource management for network slicing in service-oriented 5G and beyond core networks
- Introduces applications of machine learning techniques in dynamic resource management
- Includes advanced algorithms and solutions for dynamic resource management
Part of the book series: Wireless Networks (WN)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- 5G Networks
- Dynamic Resource Management
- Network Slicing
- Software-Defined Networks (SDN)
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
- Service Function Chain (SFC)
- Quality-of-Service (QoS) Provisioning
- Delay-Sensitive Services
- Queueing Model
- Optimization, Stochastic/Lyapunov Optimization
- Machine Learning
- software defined networking (SDN)
- end-to-end (E2E) delay
- virtual network function (VNF)
- traffic dynamics
- non-stationary traffic
- dynamic flow migration
About this book
Network slicing is enabled by the software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) paradigms. For a network slice with a target traffic load, the E2E service delivery is enabled by virtual network function (VNF) placement and traffic routing with static resource allocations. When data traffic enters the network, the traffic load is dynamic and can deviate from the target value, potentially leading to QoS performance degradation and network congestion. Data traffic has dynamics in different time granularities. For example, the traffic statistics (e.g., mean and variance) can be non-stationary and experience significant changes in a coarse time granularity, which are usually predictable. Within a long time duration with stationary traffic statistics, there are traffic dynamics in small timescales, which are usually highly bursty and unpredictable. To provide continuous QoS performance guarantee and ensure efficient and fair operation of the network slices over time, it is essential to develop dynamic resource management schemes for the embedded services in the presence of traffic dynamics during virtual network operation. Queueing theory is used in system modeling, and different techniques including optimization and machine learning are applied to solving the dynamic resource management problems.
Based on a simplified M/M/1 queueing model with Poisson traffic arrivals, an optimization model for flow migration is presented to accommodate the large-timescale changes in the average traffic rates with average E2E delay guarantee, while addressing a trade-off between load balancing and flow migration overhead. To overcome the limitations of Poisson traffic model, the authors present a machine learning approach for dynamic VNF resource scaling and migration. The new solution captures the inherent traffic patterns in a real-world traffic trace with non-stationary traffic statistics in large timescale, predicts resource demands for VNF resource scaling, and triggers adaptive VNF migration decision making, to achieve load balancing, migration cost reduction, and resource overloading penalty suppression in the long run. Both supervised and unsupervised machine learning tools are investigated for dynamic resource management. To accommodate the traffic dynamics in small time granularities, the authors present a dynamic VNF scheduling scheme to coordinate the scheduling among VNFs of multiple services, which achieves network utility maximization with delay guarantee for each service.
Researchers and graduate students working in the areas of electrical engineering, computing engineering and computer science will find this book useful as a reference or secondary text. Professionals in industry seeking solutions to dynamic resource management for 5G and beyond networks will also want to purchase this book.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Dr. Kaige Qu received the B.Sc. degree in communication engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2013, the M.Sc. degree in integrated circuits engineering and electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, respectively, in 2016, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, in 2020. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Waterloo. Her research interests include resource allocation in SDN/NFV-enabled networks, mobile edge computing, and artificial intelligence in networking.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dynamic Resource Management in Service-Oriented Core Networks
Authors: Weihua Zhuang, Kaige Qu
Series Title: Wireless Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87136-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87135-2Published: 05 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87138-3Published: 05 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87136-9Published: 03 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2366-1186
Series E-ISSN: 2366-1445
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 173
Number of Illustrations: 130 b/w illustrations, 59 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Wireless and Mobile Communication, Machine Learning