{"id":2327,"date":"2014-11-28T01:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T01:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2016-07-06T01:59:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T01:59:35","slug":"concert-a-cloud-based-architecture-for-next-generation-cellular-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"CONCERT:   A Cloud-Based Architecture for Next-generation Cellular Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/CONCERT-Publishing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-117\" title=\"pdf\" src=\"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"paper_subtitle\">LANGUAGE<\/span><br \/>\nEnglish<br \/>\n<span class=\"paper_subtitle\">SOURCE<\/span><br \/>\nIEEE Wireless Communications.<br \/>\n<span class=\"paper_subtitle\">Publishing Date<\/span>:2014-12<br \/>\n<span class=\"paper_subtitle\">ABSTRACT<\/span><br \/>\nCellular networks are one of the corner stones of our information-driven society. However, existing cellular systems have been seriously challenged by the explosion of mobile data traffic, the emergence of machine-type communications and the flourish of mobile Internet services. In this article, we propose CONCERT (CONvergence of Cloud and cEllulaR sysTems), a converged edge infrastructure for future cellular communications and mobile computing services. The proposed architecture is constructed based on the concept of control\/data (C\/D) plane decoupling. The data plane includes heterogeneous physical resources such as radio interfacing equipment, computational resources, and software-defined switches. The control plane jointly coordinates physical resources to present them as virtual resources, over which software-defined services including communications, computing, and management can be deployed in a flexible manner. Moreover, we introduce new designs for physical resources placement and task scheduling, so that CONCERT can overcome the drawbacks of the existing baseband-up centralization approach and better facilitate innovations in next-generation cellular networks. These advantages are demonstrated with application examples on the radio access networks (RANs) with C\/D decoupled air interface, delay sensitive machine-type communications, and real-time mobile cloud gaming. We also discuss some fundamental research issues arising with the proposed architecture to illuminate future research directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CONCERT_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-117\" title=\"pdf\" src=\"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/pdf.gif\"alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a>Jingchu Liu, Tao Zhao, Sheng Zhou, Yu Cheng, Zhisheng Niu, <span class=\"papertitle\">CONCERT:   A Cloud-Based Architecture for Next-generation Cellular Systems<\/span>, <span class=\"papersource\">IEEE Wireless Commun., Dec. 2014<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[100],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2411,"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/2411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/network.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn\/niulab\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}