Chapter 8

Network Slicing

Alexandros Kaloxylos

Alexandros Kaloxylos

University of Peloponnese, Greece

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Christian Mannweiler

Christian Mannweiler

Nokia Bell Labs, Germany

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Gerd Zimmermann

Gerd Zimmermann

Deutsche Telekom AG, Technology Innovation, Germany

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Marco Di Girolamo

Marco Di Girolamo

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Italy

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Patrick Marsch

Patrick Marsch

Nokia, Poland (now Deutsche Bahn, Germany)

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Jakob Belschner

Jakob Belschner

Deutsche Telekom AG, Technology Innovation, Germany

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Anna Tzanakaki

Anna Tzanakaki

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece and University of Bristol, UK

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Riccardo Trivisonno

Riccardo Trivisonno

Huawei German Research Center, Germany

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Ömer Bulakçı

Ömer Bulakçı

Huawei German Research Center, Germany

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Panagiotis Spapis

Panagiotis Spapis

Huawei German Research Center, Germany

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Peter Rost

Peter Rost

Nokia Bell Labs, Germany

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Paul Arnold

Paul Arnold

Deutsche Telekom AG, Technology Innovation, Germany

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Navid Nikaein

Navid Nikaein

EURECOM, France

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First published: 10 April 2018
Citations: 5

Summary

This chapter contains a comprehensive summary and analysis of the latest 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specifications and also findings from several 5G Public-Private Partnership (5G PPP) research projects. It provides detailed information for each network domain, as well as for the support of slicing across different operator administrative domains. Technological specificities of each domain require addressing different key issues for the realization of the slicing concept. The chapter discusses a realistic end-to-end (E2E) example of network slicing. Several slice operation aspects such as slice selection and isolation, context transfer, slice orchestration and management are presented. It also provides additional details on a number of slice operational aspects such as slice selection, connectivity to multiple slices, inter-slice radio resource management (RRM) functions, and the overall management of network slices. Finally, the chapter summarizes the key findings and also lists the technical challenges that still remain open.

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