Dear Hapuarachchige Don Nelaka Shayamal Priyankara,

here is a short list of literature on the use of SDN in 5G mobile networks.

Best wishes

Anatol Badach

R. Trivisonno, R. Guerzoni, I. Vaishnavi , D. Soldani: „ SDN-based 5G mobile networks: architecture, functions, procedures and backward compatibility“; Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, Dec 2014

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ett.2915

Junyu Lai et al.: "Software-defined cellular networking: A practical path towards 5G", International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems; Vol. 14(1), Jan 2015

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282553839_Software-defined_cellular_networking_A_practical_path_towards_5G

Ian F. Akyildiz, Pu Wang, Shih-Chun Lin: „SoftAir: A software defined networking architecture for 5G wireless systems“; Computer Networks, Vol. 85, Jul 2015

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128615001632?via%3Dihub

Xiaodong Liang, Xiaofeng Qiu: A software defined security architecture for SDN-based 5G network; IEEE International Conference on Network Infrastructure and Digital Content (IC-NIDC), Sep 2016

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7974528

Zainab Zaidi, Vasilis Friderikos, et al.: Will SDN Be Part of 5G?, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, Vol 20, May 2018

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8361844

Luis Tello-Oquendo, Ian Akyildiz, Shih-Chun Lin, Vicent Pla: „SDN-Based Architecture for Providing Reliable Internet of Things Connectivity in 5G Systems“; Jul 2018

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01832537

Dear Anatol Badach

Thanks very much for the information

Nelaka

I have experience with software defined radio where one can implement the digital down and conversion using programmable devices mostly field programmable gate arrays. One can also software implement the base band processing functions using programmable devices such as FPGA and digital signal processing DSPs.

Similarly one can implement network functions using similar techniques where one can represent the functions in a software code that can be implemented on programmable devices.

In fact any digital processing functions can be implemented on programmable platforms such as DSPs and FPGAs.

For specific applications you can search the web.

As a matter of definition software defined device= digital programmable platform + software deification of the function to be implemented. The platforms are in form of programmable DSP and FPGA kits.

Best wishes

Simulating 5G networks using mmWave ns-3

The cellular network simulator of Millimetre Wave (mmWave) (https://apps.nsnam.org/app/mmwave/) provides the simulation patterns for 5G technologies so that upcoming network scenarios can be predicted. As 5G is the upcoming cellular technology, the behaviour of different network scenarios can be checked using such network simulators.

The mmWave module integrates the following features for 5G technologies, which can be used in simulated environments:

• Simulation of 5G networks with numerous nodes and base stations
• Cross-layered architecture of 5G networks
• Frequency spectrum of more than 6GHz
• Secured transmission
• Multi-layered connection with secured layer
• Support with LTE technologies so that a higher degree of performance can be achieved
• Multi-sector cellular networks
• Network carrier management and models
• Frequency spectrum management
• Multi-level connectivity with LTE

You can combine the 5G (https://tetcos.com/5g.html) and SDN (https://tetcos.com/sdn.html) libraries in NetSim