10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885777
https://zenodo.org/records/3757772
oai:zenodo.org:3757772
Joan Josep Aleixendri
Joan Josep Aleixendri
i2CAT Foundation
August Betzler
August Betzler
i2CAT Foundation
Daniel Camps-Mur
Daniel Camps-Mur
i2CAT Foundation
A practical approach to slicing Wi-Fi RANs in future 5G networks
Zenodo
2019
Slicing, Wi-Fi, Airtime, SDN
2019-04-30
https://zenodo.org/communities/5gcity
https://zenodo.org/communities/eu
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
To deliver on the vision of network slicing, future 5G networks will have to provide virtualization and isolation for a variety of Radio Access Network (RAN) technologies. In this paper we study how to implement RAN slicing in Wi-Fi networks. In particular, we present a scheduling algorithm that allocates airtime through a set of virtual Wi-Fi interfaces executing on the same or different physical radios, in order to fulfill each tenant’s Service Level Agreement. We demonstrate a practical implementation of our scheduler on Linux systems based on the mac80211 driver that contrary to other existing solutions is independent from underlying hardware drivers. Finally, we experimentally evaluate the performance of our scheme through a set of realistic experiments.
European Commission
10.13039/501100000780
761508
5GCITY