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A Survey on 5G Architecture and Security Scopes in SDN and NFV

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Applied Information Processing Systems

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 1354))

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5G is an emerging technology and is not going to be an update to its predecessors. Researchers are intended to achieve a head-turning advancement in terms of all the way performances such as data rates, network reliability, massive connectivity, mobility, energy efficiency, latency, secure channel, spectral efficiency, etc. 5G is going to be an end-to-end system that will provide hyper-connectivity to its users. It is supposed to support roughly three use cases, i.e., Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communication (URLLC), and massive Machine-Type Communication (mMTC). All these create convergence among wireless communication and computer networking that incorporates Software-Driven Network (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Service-Based Architecture (SBA), 5G new radio technologies (M-MIMO, mmWave, UDN, FD), massive IoT techniques. This hyper-convergence will introduce new trust and security threats and relevant threat management challenges. In this paper, we tried to summarize why and how 5G is evolved and the technology requirements for 5G revolutions, and the steps adopted for technology change over to 5G. We focused on potential threats and challenges and their suggested mitigation techniques. Several open issues are identified, and possible future research directions are also discussed in this paper.

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  1. Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

    Jehan Hasneen

  2. Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Borgarfjordsgatan 8, 164 07, Kista, Sweden

    Kazi Masum Sadique

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  1. Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere, India

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  3. Department of Automatics and Applied Software, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Valentina Emilia Balas

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Hasneen, J., Sadique, K.M. (2022). A Survey on 5G Architecture and Security Scopes in SDN and NFV. In: Iyer, B., Ghosh, D., Balas, V.E. (eds) Applied Information Processing Systems . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1354. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2008-9_43

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