Re: [Marnew] [5gangip] [Stackevo-discuss] [gaia] 5G: It's the Network, Stupid

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very well said

vpns are one (or 2) dimensions of a slice - but slices are cross layer
resource pooling with isolation -
many new(er) wireless nets need to share resources at antennae and
symbol/code and forwarding/relaying levels to maximise capacity, and _then_
isolate pools of resource for given users for QoE/QoS etc reasons - you
might subsume the name VPN, but I think that'd be over-reach..

actually designing a cooperative mimo system also has the interesting
effect of making you revisit e2e security properly too

(at the routing level, sharing resources kind of wreaks havoc with current
BGP design/ practice too I believe:)

if we assume the future smart city might have about the same number of
internet end systems as the whole internet does today, and more providers
(every home&autonomous-car/bike is a provider), there's a lot to challenge
current architects, and get done before christmas

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 6:47 PM, AshwoodsmithPeter <
Peter.AshwoodSmith@huawei.com> wrote:

> Couple of comments from my perspective before disappearing for Xmas.
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> > Slices have the baggage that a process can belong to only one slice at a
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> Not always. A process which is implementing an air interface could in fact
> be implementing several slices in the same process. Or same core.
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> > Why does yet another term need to be defined for what has been
> traditionally called a multi-tenant VPN.
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> I believe a slice is much more than a VPN however VPN technologies are
> likely a component part of what a slice 'is'.
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> Here is a definition I have found helpful:
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> To define a slice we need to look at it from the perspective of both the
> end devices (1) and the network (2) so:
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> (1)   From the perspective of the end devices it’s relatively simple. A
> slice is a way to group end devices that share common QOS/QOE and
> Administration/Geographic area etc.
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> (2)   From the perspective of the network a slice is much more
> complicated. Essentially a slice is a set of subsets of the all the network
> equipment that makes up the 5G network from Antennas through to core
> processing. Thus
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> Slice_i =   Subset of(All_Antennas)        U
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>             subset of(All_Fronthaul)       U
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>             Subset of(All CRAN fabric)     U
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>             Subset of(All CRAN processing) U
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>             Subset of(ALL Numerologies)    U
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>             Subset of(All DC fabric)       U
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>             Subset of(All DC processing)
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> Where of course Subset(X) can contain all or none of the elements in X.
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> So to bring up a slice we need to allocate antennas, configure the
> fronthaul to the CRAN fabric, allocate the CRAN fabric, allocate processing
> resources ( shared or unique in the CRAN), populate those processing
> resources with the code (Numerology) that implements the RAT, then we need
> to allocate packet backhaul bandwidth in the CRAN or DC fabric, then assign
> compute resources (shared or stand alone for the packet core processing).
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> From this we can see that a multi tenant VPN can be used to implement a
> subset of a DC fabric and interconnect a subset of all DC processing.
> However there are a number of other areas of interest to the implementation
> of a slice that are well outside the scope of a VPN.
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> Note also that a slice can be isolated from another slice in time, space,
> frequency or statistically in each of those subsets and in particular the
> fronthaul and RAT require very hard boundaries between slices while as we
> get further towards packet processing the boundaries can be less ridgid.
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> Hence the need for a new term.
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> Peter
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