Softwarized and Virtualized Mobile

Networks
On the Need of Computing in Future Communication
Networks

Prof. F. Granelli
University of Trento, Italy
fabrizio.granelli@unitn.it granelli-lab.org
The evolution of telephone network
architectures
The evolution of communication
architectures
The evolution of cellular communication
systems
5G is coming...
International Mobile Telecommunications-Advanced
(IMT-Advanced Standard) are the requirements issued
by the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) of the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 2008
for what is marketed as 4G (or sometimes as 4.5G
mobile phone and Internet access service.

Source: ETSI
The 5G System
• 5G Atom
The 5G Atom use cases: Connected autonomous
cars platooning example
The 5G Atom use cases: Connected autonomous
cars crossing scenario
The 5G Atom use cases: Connected
autonomous cars Barcelona example
The 5G Atom use cases: Example network
architecture in Industry 4.0
The 5G Atom use cases: Industry 4.0 training
or remote control of robots in a virtual room
The 5G Atom use cases: Agriculture 4.0
machinery platooning with small machines
The 5G Atom use cases: Virtual power plant
model for the smart energy grid
The 5G Atom use cases: Tactile Internet
5G Atom: Technical requirements - latency
5G technical parameters

Source: ETSI
5G Atom technical parameters and use cases
5G Atom technical parameters and use cases
5G Atom technical parameters and use cases
The 5G Atom concepts: The trade-off between
throughput and latency
 Increasing reliability
decreases throughput
A single architecture for all?

reliability
high latency, low
High throughput,

From: Soret, Beatriz et al., Fundamental Tradeoffs among

Reliability, Latency and Throughput in Cellular Networks,
IEEE Globecom 2014
The 5G Atom concepts: Meshmerize (multi-
path) vs. B.A.T.M.A.N. (single-path)
demonstrator
The 5G Atom concepts: Multi-path examples
conveying six packets
The 5G Atom concepts: Combination of multi-
path and mesh communication system in an
Industry 4.0 environment
The 5G Atom concepts: Network slicing
The 5G Atom concepts: Hierarchical Mobile
Edge Cloud (MEC)
The 5G Atom game changer: Softwarization in
the cloud and in mobile devices
The 5G Atom game changer: Softwarization
future
 Softwarized and Virtualized Mobile
Networks
On the Need of Computing in Future Communication
Networks

Prof. F. Granelli
University of Trento, Italy
fabrizio.granelli@unitn.it granelli-lab.org