[TuA2] 5G and Beyond-5G Mobile Fronthaul

[TuA2-1] Network Resource Management in 5G-RAN Optical Transport

Invited

〇Kenichi Nakura, Takeshi Suehiro, Akiko Nagasawa, Yukio Hirano, Seiji Kozaki, Kazuyuki Ishida (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan)

Keywords:Optical core/metro/data-center network architecture, design, virtualization, slice, control and management

We propose a network resource management method using abstracted resources for 5G Radio Access Network (RAN) mobile fronthaul slices. Evaluation shows that the proposed method can reduce the number of processing steps by half and improve network efficiency.