Intended Audience
A high-level technical overview to personnel involved in product management, marketing, planning, design, engineering, and operations
Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
■ List examples of 5G usage scenarios and their unique needs
■ Define a Network Slice and describe how slicing is applied across 5G networks
■ Describe the limitations of Network slicing in 4G LTE networks
■ Describe the procedures involved to operate a Network slice
■ Explain the Life-cycle Management of Network slice
Outline
1. What and Why
1.1 5G Usage Scenarios
1.2 Needs of Service Provider
1.3 What is Network slice?
1.4 Network Slicing today and its limitations
1.5 Network slicing in 5G
2. Network Slicing in 5G Networks
2.1 Core network
2.2 Transport network
2.3 Radio Access network
2.4 Cloud Infrastructure (Multi-Tenancy)
3. Network Slicing Operations
3.1 Selection of Network slice by UE
3.2 Registration
3.3 Session establishment
4. Network Slicing Deployment
4.1 Network Slice Management Framework
4.2 Life Cycle Management
4.3 Configuration Management
4.4 Performance and Assurance