Mobility and bandwidth prediction in virtualized LTE systems: Architecture and challenges

Author

Karagiannis, G. ; Jamakovic, Almerima ; Briggs, Keith ; Karimzadeh, Morteza ; Parada, Carlos ; Corici, Marius Iulian ; Taleb, Tarik ; Edmonds, Andrew ; Bohnert, Thomas M.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Long Term Evolution (LTE) represents the fourth generation (4G) technology which is capable of providing high data rates as well as support of high speed mobility. The EU FP7 Mobile Cloud Networking (MCN) project integrates the use of cloud computing concepts in LTE mobile networks in order to increase LTE´s performance. In this way a shared distributed virtualized LTE mobile network is built that can optimize the utilization of virtualized computing, storage and network resources and minimize communication delays. Two important features that can be used in such a virtualized system to improve its performance are the user mobility and bandwidth prediction. This paper introduces the architecture and challenges that are associated with user mobility and bandwidth prediction approaches in virtualized LTE systems.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; cloud computing; mobile computing; mobility management (mobile radio); virtualisation; 4G technology; EU FP7 mobile cloud networking project; LTE mobile networks; Long Term Evolution; MCN; bandwidth prediction approach; cloud computing concepts; communication delay minimization; fourth generation technology; high data rates; high speed mobility; mobility prediction approach; network resources; shared distributed virtualized LTE mobile network; user mobility; virtualized LTE systems; virtualized computing; virtualized storage; Availability; Bandwidth; Long Term Evolution; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Monitoring; Prediction algorithms; LTE; bandwdith prediction; cloud computing; user mobility prediction;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882662

Filename

6882662