NFV-Enabled Experimental Platform for 5G Tactile Internet Support in Industrial Environments

Mekikis, Prodromos-Vasileios; Ramantas, Kostas; Antonopoulos, Angelos; Kartsakli, Elli; Sanabria-Russo, Luis; Serra, Jordi; Pubill, David; Verikoukis, Christos

doi:10.1109/tii.2019.2917914

Cited by 69 publications

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“…Some architectural works target specific Tactile Internet applications such as real-time teleoperation [50][100], virtual reality [101] [102], real-time video surveillance [103], industrial automation [104], smart cities [105] and general health applications [106].…”

Section: B Application-specific Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4) Industrial Automation: Mekikis et al [104] propose a testbed to investigate the capabilities of NFV and SDNbased networks for supporting Tactile Internet industrial applications. The testbed relies on a well-defined Smart End-toend Massive IoT Interoperability, Connectivity and Security framework [107] which consists of three main layers, denoted as backend/cloud, field and network layers.…”

Section: B Application-specific Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two of the proposed application-specific architectures focus on real-time tele-operations [50][100], two on virtual reality [101] [102], one on real-time video surveillance [103], one on industrial automation [104] and one on smart city applications [105], and one on general health applications [106]. One of the architectures that deals with tele-operations [50] combines the EPON and WiFi-enhanced cellular architecture presented in reference [98] with AI-enhanced MEC.…”

Section: E Summary Insights and Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another insight is that the most popular techniques used to date for meeting the requirements are offloading and running components at the edge. [104], the technique consists of running components at the edge. However, the outcome so far is not compelling, as none of these proposals meets both criteria.…”

Section: E Summary Insights and Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Comprehensive Survey of the Tactile Internet: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions

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IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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The Internet has made several giant leaps over the years, from a fixed to a mobile Internet, then to the Internet of Things, and now to a Tactile Internet. The Tactile Internet goes far beyond data, audio and video delivery over fixed and mobile networks, and even beyond allowing communication and collaboration among things. It is expected to enable haptic communications and allow skill set delivery over networks. Some examples of potential applications are telesurgery, vehicle fleets, augmented reality and industrial process automation. Several papers already cover many of the Tactile Internet-related concepts and technologies, such as haptic codecs, applications, and supporting technologies. However, none of them offers a comprehensive survey of the Tactile Internet, including its architectures and algorithms. Furthermore, none of them provides a systematic and critical review of the existing solutions. To address these lacunae, we provide a comprehensive survey of the architectures and algorithms proposed to date for the Tactile Internet. In addition, we critically review them using a well-defined set of requirements and discuss some of the lessons learned as well as the most promising research directions.

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Section: B Application-specific Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: B Application-specific Architecturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: E Summary Insights and Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: E Summary Insights and Lessons Learnedmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Comprehensive Survey of the Tactile Internet: State-of-the-Art and Research Directions

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“…The adoption of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) [3] and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) [4] will help to concretize all elements mentioned before, as they represent the enabling technologies that have completely transformed modern network infrastructures. With SDN, network softwarization is able to provide a programmable network while using the NFV paradigm allows running Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) as software components on top of a virtualization system (e.g., Virtual Machines -VMs -or Containers) hosted in various clouds; allowing high flexibility and elasticity to deploy network services and functions.…”

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confidence: 99%

Fast Service Migration in 5G Trends and Scenarios

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The need for faster and higher-capacity networks that can sustain modern, high-demanding applications has driven the development of 5G technology. Moreover, low-latency communication (1ms-10ms) is a key requirement of 5G systems. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) can be leveraged to attain the 5G objectives, since it allows the shift of part of services towards the vicinity of users, allowing the infrastructure to host various services closer to its end-users. Motivated by the evolution of real-time applications, we propose and evaluate two different mechanisms to improve the end-user experience by leveraging container-based live migration technologies. The first solution is aware of the users' mobility patterns, while the other is oblivious to the users' paths. Our results display a closer to 50% reduction on downtime, which shows the efficiency of the proposed solutions compared to prior works based on either a similar underlying technology, i.e., LXC or Docker.

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