5E2E Architecture

Marco Gramaglia1, Alexandros Kaloxylos2, Panagiotis Spapis3, Xavier Costa4, Luis Miguel Contreras5, Riccardo Trivisonno3, Gerd Zimmermann6, Antonio Oliva1, Peter Rost7 and Patrick Marsch8

1 Universidad Carlos III Madrid, Spain

2 University of Peloponnese, Greece

3 Huawei German Research Center, Germany

4 NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany

5 Telefónica I + D, Spain

6 Deutsche Telekom, Germany

7 Nokia Bell Labs, Germany

8 Nokia, Poland (now Deutsche Bahn, Germany)

5.1 Introduction

This chapter describes the current trends in the overall design of 5th generation (5G) network architecture. While the previous chapters were mainly focused on the description of the requirements and the problem space, from now on we will provide details on the currently envisioned 5G solutions. This is intended to be a starting point of the next chapters for the reader of this book who will be made familiar with common concepts that are the fundamental pillars of 5G research and standardization, with more details on individual parts of the 5G system in the following chapters.

More precisely, this chapter describes the high‐level ideas behind the common architectural trends, with a first definition of their common capabilities and how they can be leveraged to provide the enhanced key performance indicators (KPIs) expected by 5G networks [1], as elaborated in Chapter 2.

This chapter is structured as follows. We first describe the common requirement and design principles that drive the current efforts ...

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