Network Slicing and the Role of 5G in IoT Applications

Network Slicing and the Role of 5G in IoT Applications

Ashish Sharma (Lebanese French University, Iraq) and Sunil Kumar (Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University, India)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4685-7.ch010
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Abstract

The research and development along the 5th generation are moving with extreme speed around the global world. In this paper, the authors are going put light on the concepts of network slicing architecture of the 5G network at multi-level stages. The network slicing concept is another challenge faced by the 5G network. Further, the broad description of 5G architecture and analysis on infrastructure design and applications of network slicing in terms of 5G are done. This technique plays a major part in 5G technology deals with virtualization and software-defined technology. Due to low latency and its explosive growth, it is a technology to look into the deep knowledge it inculcates within. The chapter also focuses on the applications that the industry is looking into, and it has made a large impact on the user's life. With quantitative examples to show, this research will give a proper estimation for network slicing networking.
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Introduction

With cellular communication automation development, the conventional single network model is unable to meet the needs of users, and the demand for evolved assistance is growing at a faster rate.

Now for the solution to this problem, 5G came into existence. The 4G growing levels and launch of 5G are driving innovation in industry and markets. There is going to be a tremendous amount of usage on the spectrum side in the case of 5G.the network slicing is a key concept of this technology, wherein commonly shared assets can be used by access providers (Sallent et al., 2017).

This will also result in higher levels of network softwarization, which will eventually provide latest and revolutionary network assistance.

Each slice independently tailors the web runs according to demands of markets, industries and traffic models. Network slicing in 5G controls the logical networks to be generated on peak of a usually shared material network. The networks are tailored by means of slicing to meet the specific needs of applications, utilities, gadgets, customers or operatives (Ordonez-Lucena et al., 2017).

Figure 1.

Network Slicing concepts

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With 5G being initialized, the need to enable the co-existence of multiple services over the same network is also important. The new infrastructure scheme is developed due to this which provide the guaranteed service that receive its proper service level regardless of the status of other services. This calls for comprehensive service orchestration measures and techniques involving network slicing which is called the key factor of 5G which is not trivial in today’s networks. With 5G network slicing, industry in India both online and offline are heavily dependent on SDN (Software Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualisation) which we will elaborate in the coming pages (Zhang et al., 2017).

Slice of the management function contacts with organic series business operations, virtual resource platform and network management system, for different sections of the demand side (such as vertical industry users, virtual operators and other business users) special logic network to provide with secure isolation, highly controlled.

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Industrial Applications of 5G

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Brief Introduction Of 5G And Network Slicing

5G typically stands for the fifth generation of cellular mobile communication. It is the successor of 4G, i.e. the 4th generation of wireless communication. 5G works on being the most capable version of wireless communication yet in terms of performances to deliver high end user experience. Some of its features include high data transfer rates, reliable communication and low latency. It also could be stated as opportunity for the economy to grow by growing business and empowering citizens (Afolabi et al., 2018).

5G wireless communication carries the version that comes with up-scaled data rates with low latency and an improvement in quality service as perceived by the user in comparison to 4G networks. With 5G impact on technological part the industries have been heavily investing in the experiment rated to 5G. As mobile operators are pushing hard for themselves to work with upcoming 5G. Network slicing is an important part 5G architecture lifecycle. The 5G architecture will reliance on network slicing will enable the operator to use certain part of 5G network for respective use. Network slicing key that enables to deploy function at particular aspect this saves large amount of data loss and also make the network strong (Kumar et al., 2017a).

As India plans to start 5G services in coming years, operators will try to adopt the new network architecture slicing under which virtualisation will be one of the most critical aspects. 5G network slicing provide flexibility of network and bandwidth, automation and programmability enabling providers to monetise their whole range of cloud services, which are linked to 5G, smart phone, IOT, AI and more (Kumar et al., 2017b).

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