5G Virtualized Multi-access Edge Computing Platform for IoT Applications

Hsieh, Han-Chuan; Chen, Jiann-Liang; Benslimane, Abderrahim

doi:10.1016/j.jnca.2018.05.001

Cited by 64 publications

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“…We propose three solutions to solve the multi-objectives problem (1). Minimizing the cost of computing resources needs to reuse these existing VMs, but these existing VMs are usually not on the shortest path that will increase the probability of having a longer path for the entire SFC.…”

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“…Mobile radio traffic has experienced explosive growth over the past decade. In order to meet the explosively increasing demands of users, researchers have launched researches on the fifth-generation (5G) mobile radio networks [1]- [3]. Researchers have made significant progress in 5G network architecture and the Radio Access Network (RAN) [4]- [7].…”

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confidence: 99%

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On Orchestrating Service Function Chains in 5G Mobile Network

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As two of the key technologies of 5G, fog-based radio access network and network function virtualization have become an important direction for the radio network architecture evolution. Virtual network functions (VNFs) compose the service function chain (SFC) in a particular order, and the mobile network users communicate with each other or service terminals through SFCs. For service providers, it is crucially important for efficient deploying/mapping SFCs into the 5G mobile network since the SFCs deployment problem is an NP-hard problem. In this paper, we propose the efficient SFCs deployment algorithms for solving this challenge with two main design goals: 1) minimizing the cost of link resource, i.e., minimizing the path length of the entire SFC by combining VNFs and mapping temporary links and 2) minimizing the cost of computing resources by using the existing virtual machines as much as possible while performing the same VNF. We model the SFCs deployment problem as an optimization problem by using ILP as well as devise the heuristic algorithms to make the tradeoff between these two conflicting design goals. From simulation results, we can see that the performance of our proposed algorithms is promising in terms of the total SFCs mapping cost, total links mapping cost, and blocking ratio. INDEX TERMS Service function chain, fog-based radio access network, virtual network function, network function virtualization, deployment, 5G mobile network.

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On Orchestrating Service Function Chains in 5G Mobile Network

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“…Despite the considerable number of related studies in the area of IoT security, there is still no solution to protect NB-IoT devices connected to the 5G infrastructure, where the new infrastructure entails novel mechanisms able to deal with nested traffic encapsulation produced, e.g., by multi-tenancy and mobility support. In [12], Hsieh et al propose Virtual MEC (vMEC) to increase IoT applications' Quality of Service (QoS). Miettinen et al [13] present Sentinel, a system capable of automatically identifying types of devices being connected to an IoT network and enabling enforcement of rules for constraining the vulnerable communications.…”

Section: B Existing Nb-iot Attack Mitigation Systemsmentioning

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Towards Automatic Deployment of Virtual Firewalls to Support Secure mMTC in 5G Networks

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Chirevella-Perez

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IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)

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Internet of Things (IoT) has emerged as the main enabler to deal with challenging use cases that require massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), and mMTC has been recognized as one of three use case types for the Fifth Generation (5G) and beyond networks. In IoT networks, it is prohibitive to rely on just one firewall where hundreds of thousands of rules need to be installed in order to provide security countermeasures to each of the IoT devices. To fill this gap, this paper proposes an automatic deployment of virtual firewalls by leveraging Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) Management and Orchestration (MANO) to protect NB-IoT mMTC communications. The main idea underneath is to use NFV to deal with efficient rule distribution across VNFs-based firewalls to achieve scalability in the number of managed IoT devices. Empirical results have validated the design and implementation of the proposed scheme and demonstrating its advantageous performance and scalability. In particular, the deployment time for this VNF-based firewall service is highlighted to meet the requirement of a 5G Key Performance Indicator (KPI).

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“…This feature becomes extremely important when the aim is to provide a scalable approach. In [20] authors present a 5G platform for IoT applications, and the platform is able for deploying Virtualized Multiaccess Edge Computing (vMEC) when required. In [21], a hierarchical IoT structure is set up by using several cluster heads that can handle several sensor nodes.…”

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5G NB-IoT: Efficient Network Traffic Filtering for Multitenant IoT Cellular Networks

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Calero

Wang

et al. 2018

Security and Communication Networks

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Internet of Things (IoT) is a key business driver for the upcoming fifth-generation (5G) mobile networks, which in turn will enable numerous innovative IoT applications such as smart city, mobile health, and other massive IoT use cases being defined in 5G standards. To truly unlock the hidden value of such mission-critical IoT applications in a large scale in the 5G era, advanced self-protection capabilities are entailed in 5G-based Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) networks to efficiently fight off cyber-attacks such as widespread Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, insufficient research has been conducted in this crucial area, in particular, few if any solutions are capable of dealing with the multiple encapsulated 5G traffic for IoT security management. This paper proposes and prototypes a new security framework to achieve the highly desirable self-organizing networking capabilities to secure virtualized, multitenant 5G-based IoT traffic through an autonomic control loop featured with efficient 5G-aware traffic filtering. Empirical results have validated the design and implementation and demonstrated the efficiency of the proposed system, which is capable of processing thousands of 5G-aware traffic filtering rules and thus enables timely protection against large-scale attacks.

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5G Virtualized Multi-access Edge Computing Platform for IoT Applications

Cited by 64 publications

References 13 publications

On Orchestrating Service Function Chains in 5G Mobile Network

On Orchestrating Service Function Chains in 5G Mobile Network

Towards Automatic Deployment of Virtual Firewalls to Support Secure mMTC in 5G Networks

5G NB-IoT: Efficient Network Traffic Filtering for Multitenant IoT Cellular Networks

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