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Software Defined Network (SDN) provides a solution to design 5G network architectures. The existing 5G network architectures based on SDN have various problems, such as the difficulty in implementing and deploying, the poor scalability, etc. In this paper, we propose SEA (SDN-Based Evolution Architecture for 5G Network). SEA reforms the LTE/EPC system and retains the main service logic of LTE, so that it has excellent service performance. Besides, SEA uses the GTP-enabled SDN switch, which has only 4 MB code, to forward traffic, making it easier to deploy on a large scale. Finally, we implement the SEA demo and LTE contrast systems. Experiments show that the SEA demo and LTE system take the same time to build the bearing. Meanwhile, both of them can respond to the data request of the user equipment (UE) within 30–60 ms. In addition, SEA can recover data path within 6 ms.
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This research was sponsored by National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) (No. 2015AA016003) and Beijing Laboratory of Advanced Information Networks.
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He, C., Qiu, X. (2018). SEA: SDN-Based Evolution Architecture for 5G Network. In: Li, B., Shu, L., Zeng, D. (eds) Communications and Networking. ChinaCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 236. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78130-3_27
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