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C. Vitucci, L. Abeni, T. Cucinotta, M. Marinoni. "The Strategic Role of Inter-Container Communications in RAN Deployment Scenarios," in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Advances in Software Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization (SOFTNETWORKING 2019), 18th International Conference on Networks (ICN 2019), March 24-28, 2019, Valencia, Spain. Best Paper Award

Abstract

This paper elaborates on the importance of having efficient inter-container communications at the edge of the network in Software Defined Network – Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV) architectures, when deploying services close to the end-user, due to the broad range of bandwidth and latency requirements as coming from novel scenarios in the 5th telecommunication generation (5G). This results in a proposed service deployment framework that is exploited within the Virtualized Radio Access Network (V-RAN) split architecture, a scenario where the crucial role of efficient communications becomes evident. After a short comparison among common technologies available today for efficient inter-containers communications, this paper identifies primary areas of improvement for future research.

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