Key concepts
Abstract
This chapter is an introductory chapter to service based architectures, architecture modeling and identifiers in order to prepare readers for subsequent chapters. It outlines the basis of how Network Functions are developed and used with 5G Core networks including how Service Producers and Service Consumers interact in the architecture.
Keywords
5G; 5G core; 5G networks; Architecture; Service; Microservices; Network function; GPSI
This chapter introduces concepts, constructs and identifiers that are useful to understand before reading the later chapters.
5.1 Architecture modeling
As also outlined in Chapter 3, the 5G Core Network has a new network architecture. A major change compared to EPC is that ...
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