5G System Design

12Traffic Steering and Resource Management

Ömer Bulakçı¹, Klaus Pedersen², David Gutierrez Estevez³, Athul Prasad⁴, Fernando Sanchez Moya⁵, Jan Christoffersson⁶, Yang Yang⁷, Emmanouil Pateromichelakis¹, Paul Arnold⁸, Tommy Svensson⁹, Tao Chen¹⁰, Honglei Miao⁷, Martin Kurras¹¹, Samer Bazzi¹, Stavroula Vassaki¹², Evangelos Kosmatos¹², Kwang Taik Kim¹³, Giorgio Calochira¹⁴, Jakob Belschner⁸, Sergio Barberis¹⁴ and Taylan Şahin^1,15

¹ Huawei German Research Center, Germany

² Nokia Bell Labs, Denmark

³ Samsung Electronics R&D Institute, UK

⁴ Nokia Bell Labs, Finland

⁵ Nokia, Poland

⁶ Ericsson, Sweden

⁷ Intel, Germany

⁸ Deutsche Telekom, Germany

⁹ Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

¹⁰ VTT, Finland

¹¹ Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Germany

¹² WINGS ICT Solutions, Greece

¹³ Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea

¹⁴ Telecom Italia, Italy

¹⁵ Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

With contributions from Chao Fang and Behrooz Makki.

12.1 Motivation and Role of Resource Management in 5G

One of the main differentiating factors of the 5^th generation (5G) mobile and wireless network compared to previous generations is the support of a wide range of services associated with a diverse set of requirements, which are typically grouped under the main service types enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra‐reliable low‐latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine type communications (mMTC), as highlighted in Section 2.2. 5G also aims at enabling new business opportunities by addressing the requirements ...