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Self-Optimizing 5G Applications in Network Slices

A decade ago, large-scale services like enterprise resource planning (ERP) were a corner-case scenario, often designed as one-off systems. Today, applications like social networks, automated trading and video streaming have made large-scale services the norm rather than the exception. In the future, advancement in 5G networks and an explosion in the number of smart devices, microservices, databases, computing-tiers and end-points in a service will make services so complex that they cannot be tuned or managed by humans. The sheer scale, dynamic nature and concurrency in these services will require them to be autonomic. They will need to continuously self-assess, learn and automatically adjust for resource needs, data quality and service reliability.

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Our focus is on systematic models for designing, implementing and managing large-scale services that will evolve to support autonomic behavior. Large services will be partitioned to a greater degree with a greater number of loosely coupled microservices. AI techniques will monitor, analyze and automatically optimize the large ensemble of microservices based on service-specific knowledge, experience and dynamic environment to eliminate barriers like high service-response latencies, poor service quality, reliability and scalability.

Publication Tags: 5G, network slice

Network Slice Publications

Roadside Multi-LiDAR Data Fusion for Enhanced Traffic Safety

Roadside LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors promise safer and faster traffic management and vehicular operations. However, occlusion and small view angles are significant challenges to widespread use of roadside LiDARs. We consider fusing data from multiple LiDARs at a traffic intersection to

Real-Time Network-Aware Roadside LiDAR Data Compression

LiDAR technology has emerged as a pivotal tool in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), providing unique capabilities that have significantly transformed roadside traffic applications. However, this transformation comes with a distinct challenge: the immense volume of data generated by LiDAR sensors.

Efficient Compression Method for Roadside LiDAR Data

Roadside LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) sensors are recently being explored for intelligent transportation systems aiming at safer and faster traffic management and vehicular operations. A key challenge in such systems is to efficiently transfer massive point-cloud data from the roadside LiDAR devices

Application-specific, Dynamic Reservation of 5G Compute and Network Resources by using Reinforcement Learning

5G services and applications explicitly reserve compute and network resources in today’s complex and dynamic infrastructure of multi-tiered computing and cellular networking to ensure application-specific service quality metrics, and the infrastructure providers charge the 5G services for the resources

ROMA: Resource Orchestration for Microservices-based 5G Applications

With the growth of 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), edge computing and cloud computing technologies, the infrastructure (compute and network) available to emerging applications (AR/VR, autonomous driving, industry 4.0, etc.) has become quite complex. There are multiple tiers of computing (IoT devices, near

Edge-based fever screening system over private 5G

Edge computing and 5G have made it possible to perform analytics closer to the source of data and achieve super-low latency response times, which isn’t possible with centralized cloud deployment. In this paper, we present a novel fever screening system, which uses edge machine learning techniques and

SmartSlice: Dynamic, Self-optimization of Application’s QoS requests to 5G networks

Applications can tailor a network slice by specifying a variety of QoS attributes related to application-specific performance, function or operation. However, some QoS attributes like guaranteed bandwidth required by the application do vary over time. For example, network bandwidth needs of video streams

AppSlice: A system for application-centric design of 5G and edge computing applications

Applications that use edge computing and 5G to improve response times consume both compute and network resources. However, 5G networks manage only network resources without considering the application’s compute requirements, and container orchestration frameworks manage only compute resources without

SkyHAUL: A Self-Organizing Gigabit Network In The Sky

We design and build SkyHaul, the first large-scale, self-organizing network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) that are connected using a mm Wave wireless mesh backhaul. While the use of a mmWave backhaul paves the way for a new class of bandwidth-intensive, latency-sensitive cooperative applications

SkyRAN: A Self-Organizing LTE RAN in the Sky

We envision a flexible, dynamic airborne LTE infrastructure built upon Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles (UAVs) that will provide on-demand, on-time, network access, anywhere. In this paper, we design, implement and evaluate SkyRAN, a self-organizing UAV-based LTE RAN (Radio Access Network) that is a key

SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-based LTE Networks

The advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology have empowered mobile operators to deploy LTE base stations (BSs) on UAVs, and provide on-demand, adaptive connectivity to hotspot venues as well as emergency scenarios. However, today’s evolved packet core (EPC) that orchestrates the LTE RAN faces