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Software Defined Mobile Networks (SDMN): Beyond LTE Network Architecture

Description

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is one of the promising technologies that provide the required improvements in flexibility, scalability, and performance to future mobile networks to keep up with the expected growth. Thus, Software Defined Mobile Networks (SDMN) will play a crucial role in the beyond LTE mobile networks. This book presents the concepts of SDMNs which would change the network architecture of the current LTE (3GPP) networks. It provides an insight into the feasibility and opportunities of SDMN concept, as well as evaluates the limits of performance and scalability of the new technologies applied on mobile broadband networks.

This book has been created by the joint effort of many academic researchers and industrial engineers. It provides a simultaneous account of the theoretical principles of beyond LTE mobile network architectures and feasible implementations aspects.

The book is written in a step-by-step approach that includes both introductory level text as well as more advanced reference. It will meet the expectation of readers from various backgrounds and levels.

The book is written in an accessible and simple style yet will transfer up-to-date telecommunication knowledge to academic researchers and cutting-edge knowledge in SDMN concepts for industrial engineers to cope with the innovation competition.

Covered Topics Include:

• Fundamentals: includes a comprehensive literature review in SDN concepts and the evolution of mobile networks

• Architecture and Network Implementation: provides an initial explanation about the principles of SDMNs and explains the various implementation options

• Traffic Transport and Network Management: discusses the impact of SDN concepts on traffic transport and network management functions of future mobile networks

• Resource and Mobility Management: explains the various challenges on resource and mobility management of future mobile networks while adapting the SDN concepts

• Security Aspects: includes state-of-the-art in security challenges in future mobile architectures and security management aspects in SDMNs

• Techno-Economic Aspects: discusses the business cases in virtualized mobile network environments and presents both evolutionary and revolutionary industry architectures for SDMNs.

About the Author

Mr Madhusanka Liyanage, University of Oulu, Finland
Madhusanka Liyanage received the B.Sc. degree in electronics and telecommunication engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, in 2009, the M.Eng. degree from the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2011 and the M.Sc. degree from University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France in 2011.

Professor Andrei Gurtov, Aalto University, Finland
Andrei Gurtov received his M.Sc (2000) and Ph.D. (2004) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is presently a visiting scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), Berkeley. He was a Professor at University of Oulu in the area of Wireless Internet in 2010-12. He is also a Principal Scientist leading the Networking Research group at the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT.

Professor?Mika Ylianttila, University of Oulu, Finland
Mika Ylianttila received his Doctoral Degree on Communications Engineering at the University of Oulu in 2005. He has worked as a researcher and professor at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering. He is the director of the Center for Internet Excellence (CIE) research and innovation unit. He is also docent at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.