Planification globale des réseaux mobiles de la quatrième génération (4G)

RÉSUMÉ Dans le contexte actuel où l’information est la clé du succès, peu importe le domaine où l’on se place, les réseaux de télécommunications sont de plus en plus sollicités. D’énormes quantités d’informations circulent sur les réseaux à chaque seconde. Il est primordial d’assurer la disponibilité de ces réseaux afin de garantir la transmission de ces données en toutes circonstances. Le problème de la planification des réseaux de télécommunications consiste à déterminer, parmi un ensemble de sites potentiels, ceux à utiliser afin de couvrir une zone géographique donnée. Il convient également de choisir les équipements à installer sur ces sites et de faire le lien entre eux en fonction de certaines contraintes bien définies. Depuis des dizaines d’années, plusieurs auteurs se sont penchés sur la résolution de ce problème dans le but de minimiser le coût d’installation du réseau. Ces auteurs se sont intéressés à divers aspects du problème sans le considérer dans sa globalité. Certaines études ont été effectuées récemment sur la planification globale des réseaux mobiles. Les auteurs se sont intéressés aux réseaux de la troisième génération et ont proposé un modèle pour résoudre le problème de façon globale. Cependant, ils n’ont pas pris en compte la tolérance du réseau aux pannes qui pourraient survenir. Cette thèse propose un cadre de planification globale pour les réseaux de la quatrième génération (la nouvelle génération des réseaux mobiles). La survivabilité du réseau est prise en compte dans cette étude. Le travail a été effectué en trois phases. Dans la première phase, un modèle global incluant la tolérance aux pannes a été conçu pour la planification des réseaux 4G (WiMAX) et résolu de manière optimale avec un solveur mathématique, en utilisant la programmation linéaire en nombres entiers. L’objectif du modèle consiste à minimiser le coût du réseau, tout en maximisant sa survivabilité. Afin de montrer la pertinence de la résolution globale, le modèle a été comparé à un modèle séquentiel avec les mêmes contraintes. Le modèle séquentiel consiste à subdiviser le problème en trois sous-problèmes et à les résoudre successivement. Un modèle global qui n’intègre pas les contraintes de fiabilité a également été conçu afin de vérifier l’effet des pannes sur le réseau. Les résultats obtenus par le modèle global proposé sont, en moyenne, 25% meilleurs que ceux des deux autres modèles. Le problème de planification globale des réseaux et le problème de survivabilité des réseaux de télécommunications sont deux problèmes NP-difficiles. La combinaison de ces deux problèmes donne un problème encore plus difficile à résoudre que chacun des problèmes pris séparément. La méthode exacte utilisée dans la première phase ne peut résoudre que des instances de petite taille. Dans la deuxième phase, nous proposons une métaheuristique hybride afin trouver de "bonnes solutions" en un temps "raisonnable" pour des instances de plus grande taille. La métaheuristique proposée est une nouvelle forme d’hybridation entre l’algorithme de recherche locale itérée et la méthode de programmation linéaire en nombres entiers. L’hybridation de ces deux méthodes permet de bénéficier de leurs avantages respectifs, à savoir l’exploration efficace de l’espace de recherche et l’intensification des solutions obtenues. L’intensification est effectuée par la méthode exacte qui calcule la meilleure solution possible à partir d’une configuration donnée tandis que l’exploration de l’espace est faite à travers l’algorithme de recherche locale itérée. Les performances de l’algorithme ont été évaluées par rapport à la méthode exacte proposée lors de la première phase. Les résultats montrent que l’algorithme proposé génère des solutions qui sont, en moyenne à 0,06% des solutions optimales. Pour les instances de plus grande taille, des bornes inférieures ont été calculées en utilisant une relaxation du modèle. La comparaison des résultats obtenus par l’algorithme proposé avec ces bornes inférieures montrent que la métaheuristique obtient des solutions qui sont, en moyenne à 2,43% des bornes inférieures pour les instances qui ne peuvent pas être résolues de manière optimale, avec un temps de calcul beaucoup plus faible. La troisième phase a consisté à la conception d’une métaheuristique multi-objectifs pour résoudre le problème. En effet, nous essayons d’optimiser deux objectifs contradictoires qui sont le coût du réseau et sa survivabilité. L’algorithme proposé permet d’offrir plus d’alternatives au planificateur, lui donnant ainsi plus de flexibilité dans la prise de décision.----------ABSTRACT In the current context where information is the key to success in any field where one stands, telecommunications networks are increasingly in demand. Huge amounts of information circulates on the networks every second. It is essential to ensure the availability of these networks to ensure the transmission of these data at any time. The problem of planning of telecommunication networks is to determine, from a set of potential sites, those to be used to cover a given geographical area. One should also choose the equipment to be installed on these sites and to link them according to certain well-defined constraints. For decades, several authors have focused on solving this problem in order to minimize the cost of network installation. These authors were interested in various aspects of the problem without considering it in its entirety. Some studies have recently been performed on the global planning of mobile networks. The authors were interested in the third generation networks. They proposed a model to solve the problem entirely, without breaking it down into sub-problems. However, they did not take into account the fault tolerance of network. This thesis proposes a global planning framework for the fourth generation (4G) networks (the new generation of mobile networks). The survivability of the network is taken into account in this study. The work was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, a global model including survivability has been designed for the planning of 4G (WiMAX) networks and solved optimally with a mathematical solver using the integer linear programing method. The objective of the model is to minimize the network cost while maximizing its survivability. To show the relevance of the global resolution, the model was compared to a sequential model with the same constraints. The sequential model is to divide the problem into three sub-problems and solve them successively. A global model which does not include survivability constraints has also been designed to test the effect of failures on the network. The results show that the proposed model performs on average 25% better than the two other models. The problem of global network planning and the problem of survivability of telecommunications networks are two NP-hard problems. The combination of these two problems provides a problem even more difficult to solve than each problem taken separately. The exact method used in the first phase can only solve small instances. In the second phase, we propose a hybrid metaheuristic to find `good solutions' in a `reasonable time' for instances of larger size. The proposed metaheuristic is a new form of hybridization between the iterated local search algorithm and the integer linear programing method. The hybridization of these two methods can benefit from their respective advantages, namely the efficient exploration of the search space and the intensification of the solutions obtained. The intensification is performed by the exact method that calculates the best possible solution from a given configuration while the exploration of the search space is made through the iterated local search algorithm. The performance of the algorithm have been evaluated with respect to the exact method given in the first phase. The results show that the proposed algorithm generates solutions that are on average 0,06% of the optimal solutions. For the larger instances, the lower bounds are calculated using a relaxation of the model. The comparison of the results obtained by the proposed algorithm with the lower bounds show that the metaheuristic obtains solutions that are on average 2,43% from the lower bounds, for the instances that cannot be solved optimally, within a much less computation time. The third phase involved the design of a multi-objective metaheuristics to solve the problem. Indeed, we try to optimize two conflicting objectives which are the cost of network and its survivability. The proposed algorithm allows us to offer more alternatives to the planner, giving him (her) more exibility in the decision making process

Models and optimisation methods for interference coordination in self-organising cellular networks

A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophyWe are at that moment of network evolution when we have realised that our telecommunication systems should mimic features of human kind, e.g., the ability to understand the medium and take advantage of its changes. Looking towards the future, the mobile industry envisions the use of fully automatised cells able to self-organise all their parameters and procedures. A fully self-organised network is the one that is able to avoid human involvement and react to the fluctuations of network, traffic and channel through the automatic/autonomous nature of its functioning. Nowadays, the mobile community is far from this fully self-organised kind of network, but they are taken the first steps to achieve this target in the near future. This thesis hopes to contribute to the automatisation of cellular networks, providing models and tools to understand the behaviour of these networks, and algorithms and optimisation approaches to enhance their performance. This work focuses on the next generation of cellular networks, in more detail, in the DownLink (DL) of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) based networks. Within this type of cellular system, attention is paid to interference mitigation in self-organising macrocell scenarios and femtocell deployments. Moreover, this thesis investigates the interference issues that arise when these two cell types are jointly deployed, complementing each other in what is currently known as a two-tier network. This thesis also provides new practical approaches to the inter-cell interference problem in both macro cell and femtocell OFDMA systems as well as in two-tier networks by means of the design of a novel framework and the use of mathematical optimisation. Special attention is paid to the formulation of optimisation problems and the development of well-performing solving methods (accurate and fast)

Planification d'un réseau de quatrième génération à partir d'un réseau de troisième génération

RÉSUMÉ Avec l'arrivée des technologies 3G, les réseaux de télécommunications ont connu une grande expansion. Ces réseaux ont permis l'intégration de nouveaux services et un débit adéquat, permettant ainsi aux opérateurs de répondre à la demande croissante des utilisateurs. Cette rapide évolution a porté les opérateurs à adapter leurs méthodes de planification aux nouvelles technologies qui, augmentent la complexité au niveau du réseau. Cette complexité devient plus importante quand ces réseaux regroupent plusieurs technologies d'accès différents en un réseau hétérogène, comme dans le cas des réseaux mobiles de prochaine génération ou réseaux 4G. La planification fait alors intervenir de nouveaux défis tels que: l'augmentation considérable des demandes de services, la compatibilité avec les réseaux actuels, la gestion de la mobilité intercellulaire des utilisateurs et l'offre d'une qualité de services les plus flexibles. Ainsi, pour créer un réseau flexible aux ajouts et aux retraits d'équipements, une bonne méthode de planification s'impose. C'est dans ce contexte que se situe ce mémoire, qui vise à faire la planification d'un réseau 4G à partir d'un réseau 3G existant. De façon générale, le problème de planification fait intervenir plusieurs sous-problèmes avec chacun un niveau de complexité différent. Dans ce travail, le sous-problème qui est traité concerne l'affectation des cellules aux commutateurs. Ce problème consiste à déterminer un patron d'affectation qui permet de minimiser le coût d'investissement des équipements du réseau 4G, tout en maximisant l'utilisation faite des équipements du réseau 3G déjà en place. Ainsi, la solution proposée est un modèle mathématique dont l’expression prend la forme d'un problème de minimisation de fonction, assujetti à un ensemble de contraintes. Il s’agit d’une fonction de coût qui regroupe: l’affectation des cellules (eNode B) aux MME et aux SGW, et l’affectation des SGSN aux MME et aux SGW. Puisque les MME et SGW peuvent être rassemblés dans une seule passerelle, une entité nommée SGM a été défini. Ainsi, la fonction prend en compte les coûts des affectations des eNode B et des SGSN aux SGM. Ce modèle est sujet aux contraintes de capacités des SGM et aux contraintes d'unicité sur les affectations des eNode B et SGSN aux SGM. Le modèle mathématique proposé est constitué des coûts de liaisons des équipements du réseau 4G, des coûts de liaisons inter-réseaux, des coûts de relèves horizontales (intra réseau 4G) et des coûts de relèves verticales (inter-réseau 3G-4G). Le problème étant prouvé NP-difficile, la performance du modèle sera évaluée au moyen d'une méthode heuristique basée sur la recherche taboue. Pour adapter l'heuristique au problème d'affectation dans les réseaux 4G, des mouvements de réaffectation et de déplacement des nœuds eNode B et SGSN ont été définis. De même, un mécanisme de calcul de gain a été proposé, permettant d'évaluer l'apport de chaque mouvement sur le coût de la solution courante. Ainsi, les résultats numériques obtenus de l'implémentation de cette méthode, montrent que la méthode taboue accuse un écart moyen ne dépassant pas 30\% par rapport à la solution optimale. Alors que pour certains réseaux, l'heuristique a été en mesure de trouver des résultats ayant un écart moyen ne dépassant pas 1\% par rapport à la solution optimale trouvée dans les simulations.----------ABSTRACT With the advent of 3G technologies, mobile networks have expanded greatly. These networks have enabled the integration of new services and an enough bandwidth, allowing operators to meet the growing demand of users. This rapid evolution has led the operators to adapt their planning approach that come with new challenges. Those challenges become more important when these networks are designed to support different radio access technologies within a heterogeneous mobile network, like 4G networks. In this case, planning those networks involves other challenges, such as the considerable increase in services requests, compatibility with existing networks, management of intercellular mobility of users and a good quality of offered services. Thus, in order to create a network that allows to add or to remove components, good planning approach is needed. It is in this context, this paper aims to address the problem that occurs when the planning of a 4G network is based on an existing 3G network. The planning issue involves several sub-issue with a different level of complexity for each of them. This work mainly addresses the cell assignment problem regarding the 4G networks. Thus, the proposed solution is a mathematical model. This model has mainly two objectives: the assignment between 4G nodes, and the assignment between 3G and 4G nodes. Since the MME and SGW can be aggregated into a single gateway, an entity named SGM has been set. Thus, the model becomes a cost function involving assignments eNode B and SGSN to SGM. This model is subject to capacity constraints of SGM, and unique constraints on assignments eNode B and SGSN to SGM. The proposed model includes: the link's costs of 4G-network equipment, the link's costs between 3G and 4G equipment, the horizontal handoff costs (intra 4G network) and the vertical handover costs (inter-3G-4G). The problem is NP-hard, a tabu search algorithm will be used. To adapt this heuristic, movements have been defined to reallocate and move nodes eNode B and SGSN in order to improve the cost of the current solution. The results of the implementation show a gap which is less then 30\% between the TS results and left bound value. For others networks size, the gap is sometimes less then 1\% compare to the left bound value

Telecommunications Networks

This book guides readers through the basics of rapidly emerging networks to more advanced concepts and future expectations of Telecommunications Networks. It identifies and examines the most pressing research issues in Telecommunications and it contains chapters written by leading researchers, academics and industry professionals. Telecommunications Networks - Current Status and Future Trends covers surveys of recent publications that investigate key areas of interest such as: IMS, eTOM, 3G/4G, optimization problems, modeling, simulation, quality of service, etc. This book, that is suitable for both PhD and master students, is organized into six sections: New Generation Networks, Quality of Services, Sensor Networks, Telecommunications, Traffic Engineering and Routing

NFV orchestration in edge and fog scenarios

Mención Internacional en el título de doctorLas infraestructuras de red actuales soportan una variedad diversa de servicios como video bajo demanda, video conferencias, redes sociales, sistemas de educación, o servicios de almacenamiento de fotografías. Gran parte de la población mundial ha comenzado a utilizar estos servicios, y los utilizan diariamente. Proveedores de Cloud y operadores de infraestructuras de red albergan el tráfico de red generado por estos servicios, y sus tareas de gestión no solo implican realizar el enrutamiento del tráfico, sino también el procesado del tráfico de servicios de red. Tradicionalmente, el procesado del tráfico ha sido realizado mediante aplicaciones/ programas desplegados en servidores que estaban dedicados en exclusiva a tareas concretas como la inspección de paquetes. Sin embargo, en los últimos anos los servicios de red se han virtualizado y esto ha dado lugar al paradigma de virtualización de funciones de red (Network Function Virtualization (NFV) siguiendo las siglas en ingles), en el que las funciones de red de un servicio se ejecutan en contenedores o máquinas virtuales desacopladas de la infraestructura hardware. Como resultado, el procesado de tráfico se ha ido haciendo más flexible gracias al laxo acople del software y hardware, y a la posibilidad de compartir funciones de red típicas, como firewalls, entre los distintos servicios de red. NFV facilita la automatización de operaciones de red, ya que tareas como el escalado, o la migración son típicamente llevadas a cabo mediante un conjunto de comandos previamente definidos por la tecnología de virtualización pertinente, bien mediante contenedores o máquinas virtuales. De todos modos, sigue siendo necesario decidir el en rutamiento y procesado del tráfico de cada servicio de red. En otras palabras, que servidores tienen que encargarse del procesado del tráfico, y que enlaces de la red tienen que utilizarse para que las peticiones de los usuarios lleguen a los servidores finales, es decir, el conocido como embedding problem. Bajo el paraguas del paradigma NFV, a este problema se le conoce en inglés como Virtual Network Embedding (VNE), y esta tesis utiliza el termino “NFV orchestration algorithm” para referirse a los algoritmos que resuelven este problema. El problema del VNE es NP-hard, lo cual significa que que es imposible encontrar una solución optima en un tiempo polinómico, independientemente del tamaño de la red. Como consecuencia, la comunidad investigadora y de telecomunicaciones utilizan heurísticos que encuentran soluciones de manera más rápida que productos para la resolución de problemas de optimización. Tradicionalmente, los “NFV orchestration algorithms” han intentado minimizar los costes de despliegue derivados de las soluciones asociadas. Por ejemplo, estos algoritmos intentan no consumir el ancho de banda de la red, y usar rutas cortas para no utilizar tantos recursos. Además, una tendencia reciente ha llevado a la comunidad investigadora a utilizar algoritmos que minimizan el consumo energético de los servicios desplegados, bien mediante la elección de dispositivos con un consumo energético más eficiente, o mediante el apagado de dispositivos de red en desuso. Típicamente, las restricciones de los problemas de VNE se han resumido en un conjunto de restricciones asociadas al uso de recursos y consumo energético, y las soluciones se diferenciaban por la función objetivo utilizada. Pero eso era antes de la 5a generación de redes móviles (5G) se considerase en el problema de VNE. Con la aparición del 5G, nuevos servicios de red y casos de uso entraron en escena. Los estándares hablaban de comunicaciones ultra rápidas y fiables (Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) usando las siglas en inglés) con latencias por debajo de unos pocos milisegundos y fiabilidades del 99.999%, una banda ancha mejorada (enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) usando las siglas en inglés) con notorios incrementos en el flujo de datos, e incluso la consideración de comunicaciones masivas entre maquinas (Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) usando las siglas en inglés) entre dispositivos IoT. Es más, paradigmas como edge y fog computing se incorporaron a la tecnología 5G, e introducían la idea de tener dispositivos de computo más cercanos al usuario final. Como resultado, el problema del VNE tenía que incorporar los nuevos requisitos como restricciones a tener en cuenta, y toda solución debía satisfacer bajas latencias, alta fiabilidad, y mayores tasas de transmisión. Esta tesis estudia el problema des VNE, y propone algunos heurísticos que lidian con las restricciones asociadas a servicios 5G en escenarios edge y fog, es decir, las soluciones propuestas se encargan de asignar funciones virtuales de red a servidores, y deciden el enrutamiento del trafico en las infraestructuras 5G con dispositivos edge y fog. Para evaluar el rendimiento de las soluciones propuestas, esta tesis estudia en primer lugar la generación de grafos que representan redes 5G. Los mecanismos propuestos para la generación de grafos sirven para representar distintos escenarios 5G. En particular, escenarios de federación en los que varios dominios comparten recursos entre ellos. Los grafos generados también representan servidores en el edge, así como dispositivos fog con una batería limitada. Además, estos grafos tienen en cuenta los requisitos de estándares, y la demanda que se espera en las redes 5G. La generación de grafos propuesta sirve para representar escenarios federación en los que varios dominios comparten recursos entre ellos, y redes 5G con servidores edge, así como dispositivos fog estáticos o móviles con una batería limitada. Los grafos generados para infraestructuras 5G tienen en cuenta los requisitos de estándares, y la demanda de red que se espera en las redes 5G. Además, los grafos son diferentes en función de la densidad de población, y el área de estudio, es decir, si es una zona industrial, una autopista, o una zona urbana. Tras detallar la generación de grafos que representan redes 5G, esta tesis propone algoritmos de orquestación NFV para resolver con el problema del VNE. Primero, se centra en escenarios federados en los que los servicios de red se tienen que asignar no solo a la infraestructura de un dominio, sino a los recursos compartidos en la federación de dominios. Dos problemas diferentes han sido estudiados, uno es el problema del VNE propiamente dicho sobre una infraestructura federada, y el otro es la delegación de servicios de red. Es decir, si un servicio de red se debe desplegar localmente en un dominio, o en los recursos compartidos por la federación de dominios; a sabiendas de que el último caso supone el pago de cuotas por parte del dominio local a cambio del despliegue del servicio de red. En segundo lugar, esta tesis propone OKpi, un algoritmo de orquestación NFV para conseguir la calidad de servicio de las distintas slices de las redes 5G. Conceptualmente, el slicing consiste en partir la red de modo que cada servicio de red sea tratado de modo diferente dependiendo del trozo al que pertenezca. Por ejemplo, una slice de eHealth reservara los recursos de red necesarios para conseguir bajas latencias en servicios como operaciones quirúrgicas realizadas de manera remota. Cada trozo (slice) está destinado a unos servicios específicos con unos requisitos muy concretos, como alta fiabilidad, restricciones de localización, o latencias de un milisegundo. OKpi es un algoritmo de orquestación NFV que consigue satisfacer los requisitos de servicios de red en los distintos trozos, o slices de la red. Tras presentar OKpi, la tesis resuelve el problema del VNE en redes 5G con dispositivos fog estáticos y móviles. El algoritmo de orquestación NFV presentado tiene en cuenta las limitaciones de recursos de computo de los dispositivos fog, además de los problemas de falta de cobertura derivados de la movilidad de los dispositivos. Para concluir, esta tesis estudia el escalado de servicios vehiculares Vehicle-to-Network (V2N), que requieren de bajas latencias para servicios como la prevención de choques, avisos de posibles riesgos, y conducción remota. Para estos servicios, los atascos y congestiones en la carretera pueden causar el incumplimiento de los requisitos de latencia. Por tanto, es necesario anticiparse a esas circunstancias usando técnicas de series temporales que permiten saber el tráfico inminente en los siguientes minutos u horas, para así poder escalar el servicio V2N adecuadamente.Current network infrastructures handle a diverse range of network services such as video on demand services, video-conferences, social networks, educational systems, or photo storage services. These services have been embraced by a significant amount of the world population, and are used on a daily basis. Cloud providers and Network operators’ infrastructures accommodate the traffic rates that the aforementioned services generate, and their management tasks do not only involve the traffic steering, but also the processing of the network services’ traffic. Traditionally, the traffic processing has been assessed via applications/programs deployed on servers that were exclusively dedicated to a specific task as packet inspection. However, in recent years network services have stated to be virtualized and this has led to the Network Function Virtualization (Network Function Virtualization (NFV)) paradigm, in which the network functions of a service run on containers or virtual machines that are decoupled from the hardware infrastructure. As a result, the traffic processing has become more flexible because of the loose coupling between software and hardware, and the possibility of sharing common network functions, as firewalls, across multiple network services. NFV eases the automation of network operations, since scaling and migrations tasks are typically performed by a set of commands predefined by the virtualization technology, either containers or virtual machines. However, it is still necessary to decide the traffic steering and processing of every network service. In other words, which servers will hold the traffic processing, and which are the network links to be traversed so the users’ requests reach the final servers, i.e., the network embedding problem. Under the umbrella of NFV, this problem is known as Virtual Network Embedding (VNE), and this thesis refers as “NFV orchestration algorithms” to those algorithms solving such a problem. The VNE problem is a NP-hard, meaning that it is impossible to find optimal solutions in polynomial time, no matter the network size. As a consequence, the research and telecommunications community rely on heuristics that find solutions quicker than a commodity optimization solver. Traditionally, NFV orchestration algorithms have tried to minimize the deployment costs derived from their solutions. For example, they try to not exhaust the network bandwidth, and use short paths to use less network resources. Additionally, a recent tendency led the research community towards algorithms that minimize the energy consumption of the deployed services, either by selecting more energy efficient devices or by turning off those network devices that remained unused. VNE problem constraints were typically summarized in a set of resources/energy constraints, and the solutions differed on which objectives functions were aimed for. But that was before 5th generation of mobile networks (5G) were considered in the VNE problem. With the appearance of 5G, new network services and use cases started to emerge. The standards talked about Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communication (Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC)) with latencies below few milliseconds and 99.999% reliability, an enhanced mobile broadband (enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB)) with significant data rate increases, and even the consideration of massive machine-type communications (Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC)) among Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Moreover, paradigms such as edge and fog computing blended with the 5G technology to introduce the idea of having computing devices closer to the end users. As a result, the VNE problem had to incorporate the new requirements as constraints to be taken into account, and every solution should either satisfy low latencies, high reliability, or larger data rates. This thesis studies the VNE problem, and proposes some heuristics tackling the constraints related to 5G services in Edge and fog scenarios, that is, the proposed solutions assess the assignment of Virtual Network Functions to resources, and the traffic steering across 5G infrastructures that have Edge and Fog devices. To evaluate the performance of the proposed solutions, the thesis studies first the generation of graphs that represent 5G networks. The proposed mechanisms to generate graphs serve to represent diverse 5G scenarios. In particular federation scenarios in which several domains share resources among themselves. The generated graphs also represent edge servers, so as fog devices with limited battery capacity. Additionally, these graphs take into account the standard requirements, and the expected demand for 5G networks. Moreover, the graphs differ depending on the density of population, and the area of study, i.e., whether it is an industrial area, a highway, or an urban area. After detailing the generation of graphs representing the 5G networks, this thesis proposes several NFV orchestration algorithms to tackle the VNE problem. First, it focuses on federation scenarios in which network services should be assigned not only to a single domain infrastructure, but also to the shared resources of the federation of domains. Two different problems are studied, one being the VNE itself over a federated infrastructure, and the other the delegation of network services. That is, whether a network service should be deployed in a local domain, or in the pool of resources of the federation domain; knowing that the latter charges the local domain for hosting the network service. Second, the thesis proposes OKpi, a NFV orchestration algorithm to meet 5G network slices quality of service. Conceptually, network slicing consists in splitting the network so network services are treated differently based on the slice they belong to. For example, an eHealth network slice will allocate the network resources necessary to meet low latencies for network services such as remote surgery. Each network slice is devoted to specific services with very concrete requirements, as high reliability, location constraints, or 1ms latencies. OKpi is a NFV orchestration algorithm that meets the network service requirements among different slices. It is based on a multi-constrained shortest path heuristic, and its solutions satisfy latency, reliability, and location constraints. After presenting OKpi, the thesis tackles the VNE problem in 5G networks with static/moving fog devices. The presented NFV orchestration algorithm takes into account the limited computing resources of fog devices, as well as the out-of-coverage problems derived from the devices’ mobility. To conclude, this thesis studies the scaling of Vehicle-to-Network (V2N) services, which require low latencies for network services as collision avoidance, hazard warning, and remote driving. For these services, the presence of traffic jams, or high vehicular traffic congestion lead to the violation of latency requirements. Hence, it is necessary to anticipate to such circumstances by using time-series techniques that allow to derive the incoming vehicular traffic flow in the next minutes or hours, so as to scale the V2N service accordingly.The 5G Exchange (5GEx) project (2015-2018) was an EU-funded project (H2020-ICT-2014-2 grant agreement 671636). The 5G-TRANSFORMER project (2017-2019) is an EU-funded project (H2020-ICT-2016-2 grant agreement 761536). The 5G-CORAL project (2017-2019) is an EU-Taiwan project (H2020-ICT-2016-2 grant agreement 761586).Programa de Doctorado en Ingeniería Telemática por la Universidad Carlos III de MadridPresidente: Ioannis Stavrakakis.- Secretario: Pablo Serrano Yáñez-Mingot.- Vocal: Paul Horatiu Patra

Power minimization and optimum ONU placements in integrated wireless optical access networks

The deployment of optical fibre in place of copper cable in access networks has experienced remarkable growth over the past several years due to a wide range of benefits. A major benefit of optical fibre over copper cable is that it is more secure and immune to electromagnetic interferences. Optical fibre has also provided the capability of handling higher throughputs for longer distances, and experiences no crosstalk between other fibre optic cables. However, the last mile reach to end-users with optical fibre is very costly. This alternative replacement results in increased costs for manual labour and energy consumption in the access network. The current demand in all areas of telecommunications, and especially access networks, is greener networking. In order to offset the high costs of optical access implementations and to satisfy this demand, an investigation into integrated wireless optical access networks (IWOAN) is warranted. The proliferation of wireless devices has also motivated the interest in IWOAN as it combines the flexibility and efficiency of wireless with the security and stability provided by optical. With the emergence of smart phones and tablets, wireless access networks are now supporting an increasing amount of traffic volume with improved throughput and accessibility. We employ a Passive Optical Network (PON) infrastructure from the central office to the customer, traced from the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) to the customer premises devices known as Optical Network Units (ONUs) for IWOAN. At the ONU, the optical fibre is terminated and wireless communication is implemented. The ONU acts as a wireless access point/gateway for wireless Base Stations (BS) serving different coverage areas in point-to-point topology. With recent trends of advanced wireless technologies, premium rich applications such as multimedia streaming, interactive gaming and cloud computing are delivered in a satisfactory and economic way. This wireless-optical integration aims to reduce and solve the cost of replacing copper cables. However, another issue is raised with increased costs in energy consumption due to the integration of wireless and optical communication. Typically a large number of ONUs need to be deployed in order to serve many wireless BSs located in different coverage areas. As a result, any cost savings gained by the integration process is exhausted with the increased cost of power consumption

Performance assessment & synergic operation of algorithmic solutions enabling opportunistic networks– D4.2

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