Network Slicing Cost Allocation Model

Abstract

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“…Furthermore, as per standard industry practice, the backhaul cost is split between CAPEX and ongoing OPEX [122], while the existing debt payment is factored into CAPEX [123]. Therefore, the modified TCO for this study is [57], [102], [124]…”

“…To understand the demand per site, 5G NR scheduling is utilized [112], [144]. Generally, there would be around 60 active users at any instant in time per site, except during congestion times when the capacity can be expanded using virtual and cloud resources [124]. Fig.…”

Resource Allocation for Cost Minimization of a Slice Broker in a 5g-Mec Scenario

“…Two VNFs are interconnected by a Virtual Link (VL), which requires an amount of data rate [18]. Finally, a network slice requires also an end-to-end delay, which is determined by the sum of delay in each VL in the SFC from the ingress endpoint to the egress endpoint [19,20]. We assume that the computation delay for running each VNF in the SFC is constant and does not depend on the CP where a VNF is allocated [21].…”

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“…Network slicing enables the construction of virtual slices on the same physical resources to support a greater number of UEs, on-demand resource allocation, remote resource management for UEs, increased spectral efficiency, reduced costs, tailored services, and isolated operations of slice tenants. [19], [20]. Network slicing allows increased resource utilisation as the hardware resources are shared among the slice tenants, and allocated as per demand.…”

“…is the standard expenditure function and can be explored more in detail from [47]. The values of K, β, δ min , γ and V will vary depending on each situation and MNOs' requirements [20]. To simplify the analysis, we assume C inc to be around 20% of C T i as C T i includes most of the cost involved in slicing technology as well as 5G infrastructure deployment.…”