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USD: A User-Centric Software Defined Platform for 5G Mobile Devices

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This paper introduces USD, a novel User-centric Software Defined platform for 5G mobile devices, which supports a wide range of users with the diversity of technical experience. Respecting user preferences, USD is able to exploit multiple wireless networks, as well as, to differentiate application traffic. The advantages of USD are realized by using a set of network virtualization (NW) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) technologies. Similar to the state-of-the-art works, USD leverages SDN in the exploitation of multiple networks. However, USD uniquely uses network namespace to isolate an application traffic at a granularity as fine as a process (i.e., each process’s traffic belong to one networking stack). Moreover, USD relaxes the dependence on radio hardware by using wireless virtualization. The relaxation aims not only to efficiently utilize 5G networking resources but also to add an user-centric interface. As a proof of concept, we implement a prototype of USD using the Wi-Fi, Open vSwitch, and the network virtualization technologies. We evaluate the performance of USD in a comparison with a legacy platform in an assuming 5G scenario. The evaluation results show that the USD prototype achieves comparable performances to the legacy platform while it introduces the advanced user-centric features.

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 26730055.

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  1. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 3-4 Hikarinooka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, 239-084, Japan

    Kien Nguyen, Kentaro Ishizu & Fumihide Kojima

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  1. IBM Research , Haifa, Israel

    Benny Mandler

  2. CONNECT Centre, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Johann Marquez-Barja

  3. GTA/PEE-COPPE/DEL-Poli, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Miguel Elias Mitre Campista

  4. Faculty of Materials Science and Technology in Trnava, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Trnava, Slovakia

    Dagmar Cagáňová

  5. Institut Télécom SudParis , Evry, France

    Hakima Chaouchi

  6. College of Communication and Information, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

    Sherali Zeadally

  7. College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Mohamad Badra

  8. University of Pisa, Pisa, Holy See (Vatican City State)

    Stefano Giordano

  9. DICIEAMA Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy

    Maria Fazio

  10. CREATE-NET , Trento, Italy

    Andrey Somov

  11. University of Trento , Trento, Italy

    Radu-Laurentiu Vieriu

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Nguyen, K., Ishizu, K., Kojima, F. (2016). USD: A User-Centric Software Defined Platform for 5G Mobile Devices. In: Mandler, B., et al. Internet of Things. IoT Infrastructures. IoT360 2015. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 170. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47075-7_57

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