Evaluation platform with virtualized network emulation for traffic control methods in optical access and 5G co-operation systems

Abstract

5G mobile networks are being applied to various services. Herein, optical access networks based on passive optical network technologies assume the role of aggregating these mobile networks. Although 5G mobile networks and optical access networks have been operated independently, co-operated traffic control between these networks is required to provide end-to- end QoS. This paper proposes a platform using software virtualization to evaluate various traffic control mechanisms. This paper surveys various services across 5G mobile networks and the network requirements for these services. Then, it describes logical models to evaluate the co- operation between the networks and implementation of these models as the platform. Especially, this paper focuses on multiplexing queuing models and their implementation on this platform.