Due to copyright restrictions, the access to the full text of this article is only available via subscription.The tremendous growth in wireless Internet use is showing no signs of slowing down. Existing cellular networks are starting to be insufficient in meeting this demand, in part due to their inflexible and expensive equipment as well as complex and non-agile control plane. Software-defined networking is emerging as a natural solution for next generation cellular networks as it enables further network function virtualization opportunities and network programmability. In this article, we advocate an all-SDN network architecture with hierarchical network control capabilities to allow for different grades of performance and complexity in offering core network services and provide service differentiation for 5G systems. As a showcase of this architecture, we introduce a unified approach to mobility, handoff, and routing management and offer connectivity management as a service (CMaaS). CMaaS is offered to application developers and over-the-top service providers to provide a range of options in protecting their flows against subscriber mobility at different price levels
Many of the video streaming applications in today's Internet involve the
distribution of content from a CDN source to a large population of interested
clients. However, widespread support of IP multicast is unavailable due to
technical and economical reasons, leaving the floor to application layer
multicast which introduces excessive delays for the clients and increased
traffic load for the network. This paper is concerned with the introduction of
an SDN-based framework that allows the network controller to not only deploy IP
multicast between a source and subscribers, but also control, via a simple
northbound interface, the distributed set of sources where multiple-
description coded (MDC) video content is available. We observe that for medium
to heavy network loads, relative to the state-of-the-art, the SDN-based
streaming multicast video framework increases the PSNR of the received video
significantly, from a level that is practically unwatchable to one that has
good quality.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, First Workshop on Software-Defined
Internets of the Future - WSDIF 2014. Proceedings of the 11th IEEE
International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2014 -
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - October 28 - 30, 201
An efficient series that is used to calculate the probability of error for a BPSK modulated DS CDMA system with chip timing and canier phase errors in a slowly fading, rnultipath channel is derived. The receiver is assumed to be. a coherent RAKE receiver. Three types of diversity schemes are considered: selection diversity, equal gain diversity combining and maximal ratio diversity combining. The emor probability derivation does not resort to the widely used Gaussian approximation for the intersymbol interference and multiple access interference and is very accurate. The derived series for probability of error calculations is used to assess the reduction in the system capacity due to different levels of synchronization errors. For all three diversity combining schemes considered, the degradation in the system performance is expressed as an effective reduction in the system processing gain. Systems of 1.25 MHz, 5 MHz and 10 MHz are considered for different number of diversity branches and it is shown that the percentage reduction in the system capacity due to synchronization errors is approximately the same for all these systems.
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