Network Slicing for Future 5G Wearable Devices and Internet of ThingsDr. Geng Wu, Intel Fellow and Dr. Qian (Clara) Li, Sr. Research Scientist

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Networks and devices will take a quantum leap

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100x

1,000x

10,000x

Compute+

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FeaturePhone

SmartPhone

Portable

Wearable

Future underlay networks Future device virtualization

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Computing and communication come together

Computing for Communication

453.85

11.26

265.38

10.2

Interrupt MAX Latency on Intel

Processors Trends (µs)

Xeon Sandy Bridge Xeon Ivy Bridge

OFF the Shelf, KVM

Wind River, OVP KVM

Communication for Computing

5G

5G

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How do we evolve networks and devices?

One big networkMobile Broadband (MBB)

Vertical slicingMBB + Verticals

One efficient network Many industries

Horizontal slicingMBB + Verticals + Consumers

All market segments

D2D Coordinator

D2D UnicastLink

D2D Coordinator

D2D Broadcast

Link

Pico/HomeeNB

MacroeNB

Pico/HomeeNB

D2D UnicastLink

D2D Cluster #1

D2D Cluster #2

D2D Cluster #3

D2D Coordinator

D2D UnicastLink

D2D Cluster #0

Spatial Reuse in One Cell Area

D2D Broadcasting

Multi-hop

D2D Cluster #4

Mesh Data on WiFi DirectDiscovery and control on LTE

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Vertical slicing for many industries/use cases

Wearable

QoS

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Horizontal slicing for future user experience

3G/4G

3G/4G

Base Station

Portable

Wearable

Horizontal Slicing

Comm

Compute

Comm

Comm

Compute

ComputeComm

5G

Portable

Wearable

5G

Base Station

Horizontal Slicing

Virtualized Mobile Comm + Compute

Virtualized Mobile Comm + Compute

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Horizontal slicing needs air interface innovations

Extreme low power Low power

when inactive Low power

sustained comm

Low data rate

High bursty data rate

Low active data rate

Scalable peak data rate

Energy-efficient sustained data rate

Optional D2D with other devices

Optional NW direct connect

Opportunistic NW direct connect

nUE

EPC

E-UTRAN

wUEwUE

wUE

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Tight coupling of communication and computing

OS

Computing

Application

Wearable/UE5G RAT

Computing

Host node5G RAT

5G radio link

WearableOr

Portable

Base Stationor

Portable

Virtualized Device + Access Mobile Computing

Container

Technology objectives

Expand mobile computing beyond native platform capabilities

Achieve optimum compute and communication tradeoff

Infrastructure participates in application computing

Simplify application development and performance optimization

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Densification of moving network clusters

Coordinator

UnicastLink

Coordinator

BroadcastLink

Pico/HomeeNB

MacroeNB

Pico/HomeeNB

UnicastLink

Cluster #1

Cluster #2

Cluster #3

Coordinator

UnicastLink

Cluster #0Spatial Reuse

Broadcasting

Multi-hop

Cluster #4

Mesh Data on WiFi DirectDiscovery and control on LTE

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Transform today’s hetnet into 5G networks

Hetnet - Bottom-Up 5G Networks – Top-Down

Thank You!