Towards a Software-Defined, Fine-Grained QoS Framework for 5G and beyond Networks

Zhi Li Zhang; Udhaya Kumar Dayalan; Eman Ramadan; Timothy J. Salo

doi:10.1145/3472727.3472798

Towards a Software-Defined, Fine-Grained QoS Framework for 5G and beyond Networks

Zhi Li Zhang
, Udhaya Kumar Dayalan
, Eman Ramadan
, Timothy J. Salo

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

5G offers a slew of new features and capabilities to support a whole gamut of new applications. On the other hand, 5G new radio (NR), especially, high-band mmWave radio, also poses new challenges, as shown by recent measurement studies of commercial 5G services. In order to effectively support new classes of application such as extra low-latency and/or high-bandwidth applications, we argue that truly cross-layer network-application integration that exposes application semantics to enable 5G and beyond 5G (B5G) networks to make intelligent decisions, e.g., for dynamic radio resource allocation, is needed. Unfortunately the existing 5G flow-based framework is inadequate to support such cross-layer integration. We therefore advocate a software-defined, fine-grained QoS framework. We use ultra-high resolution (UHR) volumetric video streaming as a use case and conduct very preliminary experiments to demonstrate the potential benefits of the proposed framework. This position paper serves as a strawman to call for new intelligent architectural designs for B5G networks and next-generation wireless systems.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	7-13
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450386333
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3472727.3472798
State	Published - Aug 23 2021
Event	2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network-Application Integration/Co-Design, NAI 2021, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Aug 23 2021 → Aug 23 2021

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Name	NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021

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Conference	2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network-Application Integration/Co-Design, NAI 2021, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/23/21 → 8/23/21

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Funding Information:
We thank our shepherd Qiao Xiang and the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and suggestions. This research was in part supported by NSF under grants CNS-1617729, 1618339, CNS-1814322, CNS-1836722, CNS-1831140 and CNS-1901103.

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© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

5G and beyond
QoS framework
application semantics
fine-grained
software -defined

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Zhang, Z. L., Dayalan, U. K., Ramadan, E., & Salo, T. J. (2021). Towards a Software-Defined, Fine-Grained QoS Framework for 5G and beyond Networks. In NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021 (pp. 7-13). (NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472727.3472798

Towards a Software-Defined, Fine-Grained QoS Framework for 5G and beyond Networks. / Zhang, Zhi Li; Dayalan, Udhaya Kumar; Ramadan, Eman et al.
NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. p. 7-13 (NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Zhang, ZL, Dayalan, UK, Ramadan, E & Salo, TJ 2021, Towards a Software-Defined, Fine-Grained QoS Framework for 5G and beyond Networks. in NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021. NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 7-13, 2nd ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Network-Application Integration/Co-Design, NAI 2021, co-located with ACM SIGCOMM 2021, Virtual, Online, United States, 8/23/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3472727.3472798

Zhang ZL, Dayalan UK, Ramadan E, Salo TJ. Towards a Software-Defined, Fine-Grained QoS Framework for 5G and beyond Networks. In NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2021. p. 7-13. (NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021). doi: 10.1145/3472727.3472798

Zhang, Zhi Li ; Dayalan, Udhaya Kumar ; Ramadan, Eman et al. / Towards a Software-Defined, Fine-Grained QoS Framework for 5G and beyond Networks. NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. pp. 7-13 (NAI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Workshop on Network-Application Integration, Part of SIGCOMM 2021).

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