Guaranteed bit rate traffic prioritisation and isolation in multi-tenant radio access networks
Abstract
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- Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Comunicacions mòbils
- Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Radiodifusió per ràdio
- Mobile communication systems
- Computer networks
- Radio
- Admission Control
- Markov model
- Multi-tenancy
- Network slicing
- RAN slice 5G mobile communication systems
- Access control
- Computer networks
- Markov processes
- Radio
- Communication providers
- Guaranteed bit rate
- Markov model
- Multi tenancies
- Network slicing
- Radio access networks
- Radio resources
- RAN slice
- Quality of service
- Comunicacions mòbils, sistemes de
- Ordinadors, Xarxes d'
- Ràdio