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Orion RAN Slicing System
X E N O F O N F O U K A S *†, M A H E S H K . M A R I N A *, K I M O N KO N TO VA S I L I S †
*The University of Edinburgh † NCSR “Demokritos”
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Service-oriented 5G view
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Towards a service-oriented architecture
Conventional One-size Fits AllMobile Network Architecture
Fixed and Rigid Flexible and Customizable
End-to-end Network Slicing Architecture
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Our contribution: Orion
Orion RAN slicing system
Functional and Performance Isolation
Efficient sharing of radio and spectrum resources
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Orion Overview
Orion RAN slicing system
Functional and Performance Isolation
Efficient sharing of radio and spectrum
resources
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Physical Base StationInfrastructure provider
◦ Owner of physical base stations◦ Radio equipment
◦ Memory
◦ CPU
◦ Network
◦ Spectrum
Single Radio Access Technology per base station
◦ Resources exploited through single physical layer
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Orion Hypervisor
Partitions radio resources among slices◦ Based on service requirements
Virtualizes radio resources and data plane state
◦ Ensures radio resource isolation
Performs slice bookkeeping operations
Maps UEs to slices
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Slice Virtual Control Plane
Isolated Virtual Network Functions
(Containers, VMs...)
Decoupled control & data plane
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Slice Flexibility/Configurability
Slice 1 controllerLoad Balancing
Slice 1 controllerLoad Balancing
Slice 2 controllerQoS optimization
Slice 2 controller
Slice 2 controller
Orion Hypervisor
Orion Hypervisor
Orion Hypervisor
Orion Hypervisor
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Orion DemonstrationCreation and operation of RAN slices
◦ Dynamic slice creation through configuration files
◦ VNF placement & chaining◦ Different EPC configurations (shared EPC/MOCN)
◦ Co-located/Distributed Virtual control planes
◦ Slice monitoring◦ Demonstration of data plane state isolation among slices
Slice radio resource isolation◦ Creation of slices with different radio resource requirements
◦ Best effort
◦ Average throughput
◦ Static resource block allocation
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Demonstration Topology
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Outstanding IssuesInconsistency in achieved DL throughput when using LimeSDR compared to other SDR solutions
◦ Same behavior for both vanilla OpenAirInterface and Orion
◦ When using iperf3 to generate traffic for a single TCP flow we observe the following behavior:
◦ Achieved throughput can have great variability when using LimeSDR with single TCP flow
Problem was partially resolved with the calibration of the LimeSDR unit (OAI configuration file)
To fully overcome the issue for the demo, we generated multiple parallel TCP flows with iperf3 per UE◦ 10 parallel TCP flows instead of a single flow per UE
Vanilla OpenAirInterface Orion
LimeSDR 10-16Mbps 4-12 Mbps
USRP B210 16Mbps 12-14 Mbps