Software-Defined mobile backhaul for future Train to ground Communication services

Aravinthan, Gopalasingham; Van, Quan Pham; Roullet, Laurent; Chen, Chung Shue; Renault, Éric; Natarianni, Lionel; Marchi, Stephane De; Hamman, Emmanuel

doi:10.1109/wmnc.2016.7543984

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“…A programmable control plane allows, in fact, a more flexible management of traffic flows and a more efficient handling of user mobility in these networks. The adoption of SDN in the mobile backhaul part of the railway communications infrastructure has been already proposed in the literature [11]. We consider the adoption of a programmable control plane in a railway network infrastructure as a valuable architectural innovation that opens-up new opportunities.…”

Section: Software-defined Communication Network For Railwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Generation of Domain-Aware Control Plane Logic for Software Defined Railway Communication Networks

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Flammini

Marrone

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The emergence of 5G technologies opens up new opportunities for railway communications. One of the foundational aspects of 5G architecture is its control-plane programmability, which can be achieved through Software Defined Networking (SDN). In railway scenarios, this can be used to dynamically reconfigure the network for a more effective and efficient management of communication flows produced by moving trains. The paper presents a framework for integrating modelling and analysis tools into a programmable control plane specifically tailored to railway communications. We introduce the concept of domain-awareness in the network control plane as an SDN-enabled feature that allows achieving application-specific advantages besides those purely expressed in terms of key performance indicators such as the quality of service. We propose a reference architecture in which domain-awareness in the control plane is obtained by considering information gathered by network devices and ad-hoc communication gateways that are able to detect relevant signalling events. In the architecture, the actual behaviour of the SDN controller is governed by applications that are able to react to specific triggers and re-configure network devices accordingly. We also provide a methodological framework based on model-driven engineering and formal methods, including dynamic state machines, for the automatic generation of SDN control plane logic.

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Section: Software-defined Communication Network For Railwaysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Automatic Generation of Domain-Aware Control Plane Logic for Software Defined Railway Communication Networks

Canonico

Flammini

Marrone

et al. 2022

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Authors in [11] propose an architecture for T2G communication based on an SDN-controlled mobile backhaul network. This architecture can efficiently handle mobility management and provide dynamic quality-of-service (QoS) for different services onboard.…”

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An Adaptable Train-to-Ground Communication Architecture Based on the 5G Technological Enabler SDN

2019

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Railway communications are closely impacted by the evolution and availability of new wireless communication technologies. Traditionally, the critical nature of railway services, the long lifecycle of rolling stock, and their certification processes challenge the adoption of the latest communication technologies. A current railway telecom trend to solve this problem is to design a flexible and adaptable communication architecture that enables the detachment of the railway services—at the application layer—and the access technologies underneath, such as 5G and beyond. One of the enablers of this detachment approach is software-defined networking (SDN)—included in 5G architecture—due to its ability to programmatically and dynamically control the network behavior via open interfaces and abstract lower-level functionalities. In this paper, we design a novel railway train-to-ground (T2G) communication architecture based on the 5G technological enabler SDN and on the transport-level redundancy technique multipath TCP (MPTCP). The goal is to provide an adaptable and multitechnology communication service while enhancing the network performance of current systems. MPTCP offers end-to-end (E2E) redundancy by the aggregation of multiple access technologies, and SDN introduces path diversity to offer a resilient and reliable communication. We carry out simulation studies to compare the performance of the legacy communication architecture with our novel approach. The results demonstrate a clear improvement in the failover response time while maintaining and even improving the uplink and downlink overall data rates.

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“…As a result, the communication latency between Docker containers is significantly lower compared Next, we measure the average waiting time spent in the two systems from the testbeds. Note that this waiting time refers toW q given by (5). Fig.…”

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“…In the context of C-RAN, virtualization plays a key role in deploying and managing the life cycle of mobile network functions and services in the central cloud in order to achieve efficient resource utilization, elasticity, and load balancing. The NFV also results in a significant reduction in the CAPEX as well as OPEX by using automation techniques such as orchestration [5] together with SDN.…”

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Virtualization of radio access network by Virtual Machine and Docker: Practice and performance analysis

Aravinthan

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Chen

et al. 2017

2017 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management (IM)

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Software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are the embraced technologies for the backhauling of future 5G networks. Virtual Machine (VM) and Docker container based deployments have received much attention. This paper presents the virtualization of a prototyped software defined radio access network (RAN) architecture by using VMs and Docker containers. In addition, it provides an analytical model for the generalized software defined RAN architecture with the practice of VM based and Docker container based implementations. Using measurements obtained from the two testbeds and the introduced queuing model, we compare their performances and analyze the two different architectures. Results verify the superiority of the Docker technology. Some observations from the behavior of the testbeds are concluded for a better understanding of the VM and Docker container based technologies for the future development of 5G SDN controller.

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Software-Defined mobile backhaul for future Train to ground Communication services

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Automatic Generation of Domain-Aware Control Plane Logic for Software Defined Railway Communication Networks

Automatic Generation of Domain-Aware Control Plane Logic for Software Defined Railway Communication Networks

An Adaptable Train-to-Ground Communication Architecture Based on the 5G Technological Enabler SDN

Virtualization of radio access network by Virtual Machine and Docker: Practice and performance analysis

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