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Business Drivers of Future Mobile Core eople Voice + SMS Mobile Internet Multimedia Enhanced Mobile Broadband 4K Video Business Drivers Smart Home/Building Voice VR/AR Remote control Things Smart City Auto Driving Massive Machine Type Communications Ultra-reliable and Lowlatency Communications 2G 3G 4G 5G 1990 2000 2010 2020 2
2 Steps to Target Architecture hase I : Single hase II: Cloudifaction hase III: Cloud Native Slicing Slicing Slicing A A A A A 2G 3G 4G Virtualized Infrastructure Virtualized Infrastructure 1 2 3 3 rotocol driven monolithic NFs Hierarchical and static network deployment One instance for multiple use cases VNFs with layered architecture Decomposed VNFs with full & CUS for MEC scenarios C/U separation Core Slicing for NB- Service Oriented E2E IOT, MEC, MVNO and etc Slicing Different Virtual instances for More customer segments vertical segments and MBB 2016-2018 2018+
Migration NFs towards Cloudification Architecture Cloudification Architecture Stateless Design + Session LB Session Database layer Separated service state from service process unit Service rocessing Unit Separated interface layer from service layer internal Load Balancer Service BUS Journey towards Cloudification 2016:Industry recognition & vendor follow up 2015: Commercial in EU/China 2014: Joint Demo in MWC DC DC 2013: Development/oC Graceful Scalability Common Architecture of N-Way Redundancy Huawei VNFs (control/dataplane) Better resource utilization Highly Respect on Huawei s courage on re-architecture the distributed DB, which is the only big vendor choose to do 2011: Feasibility Study 4
Reconstruct C/U lane to Simplify the Architecture Current SOC (Service Oriented Core) Control lane HSS ANDSF CRF MME AAA DHC Control lane Reconstruct SOC-C (Converged Control ) GW Gi-LAN GW-C GW-U Firewall DI URL filter Video opt. TC opt. Decouple control and user plane Cache User lane Reconstruct Unique Control lane SOC-U (Service rocessing ) rogrammable User lane Leading Standard osition Leading rogress with Tier-1 Os Leading Roadmap for Evolution 5
Decomposed C/U for Service Diversity & Fast TTM SOC-C SOC-U External Interface rocess Controller User Data Mgmt. Security rocess Services MM SM LCS DN Conn. olicy Mgmt. Service Components Composable Control s Data Service Access Control Context Subscriber Configuration TC Acceleration MI rotocol Stack QOS Charging. rogrammable Framework No GT GT.. Scheduler umtc U-MBB ULL mlan switch Traffic Steering Modularize to decompose the control plane and user plane lug & lay (n): each module can be replaced/modified/added individually On-demand module assembling to meet different requirements 6
CUS Standard rogress & Roadmap Standard rogress CUS(S2-152709 ) is put forward in 3G in July 2015 and Huawei is the only Work item Rapporteur. Up to 2016Q1, 40% of SI task has been finished. 2015.9 CUS SI Start 2016.5 CUS WI Transfer 2016.9 CUS SA2 Freeze 2017.3 CUS stage3 Freeze Joint Innovation CUS based MCDN solution trial with Tier-1 Operator in China. Research Start Oct.2013 Joint Demo With Operator V in MWC Feb.2016 MCDN Trial Start MCDN Trial Complete Commercial launch April, 2016 2016Q2 2016Q3 MCDN CUS Modular C* & rogrammed U* Roadmap Sep, 2016 Oct, 2016 (trial) 2017Q2 (Commercial) 2018~ 7
Dynamic Slices Decomposed Library Voice IMS High reliability SOC- U SOC- C Critical Connectivity 1~5ms latency Car A SOC- U SOC- C embb AR/BR 1~10Gbps AR/VR SOC-U SOC- C NB-IOT 100M connections SOC- C SOC- U Edge DC Local DC Regional DC 8
E2E Slicing Auto Management Mission Critical Mobile Broadband Massive CIoT Request Mapping Service Request Request Component Selection Mobility Session Access charging QOS & Feature Service Order SONAC Topology Generation Slice 3 DRAN CDN Slice C 2 DRAN CDN Slice C 1 CRAN A U CRAN DRAN A CDN U C CRAN A U CO LDC RDC Workflow Definition NFVO OSS SOC SOR Business Model Service Input Service Model Online lanning for Service to Definition NG EMS(NE Data Configure) Slicing NFVO(Virtual Resource Deploy) CloudBB in CO Backhaul vne Local DC (FE) Backbone vne Regional DC (BE) Resource Model Auto Configuring for to Resource 9
From Mass Market to Many Customer Segments North America Europe Middle East Russia China East Asia 50% 10% Mobile Enterprise 20% M2M/NB IoT South acific Mobile Broadband 20% Gi-LAN 50+ Commercial Contracts 50+ ocs & Trials Leading osition NFV Standardization/Open Source 10
Asian Operator A: Large Scale Mass Market 1 CloudUSN 1400000 2M D in live network 1 CloudUSN 1 CloudCG 2 CloudUGW MEDAN EKANBARU JAMBI 2 CloudUSN 1 CloudCG 3 CloudUSN 2 CloudUGW ALEMBANG KALIMANTAN SULAWESI 2 CloudUSN 1200000 1000000 800000 600000 400000 200000 CloudUGW1 CloudUGW2 EAST JAVA rojetc scope of Huawei: 8.8 M subs, 6M D & 95 Gbps Migration starting from May 2016 DENARSAR 2 CloudUSN 1 CloudCG O 0 Feb 2016 May 19 Reference site May 30 h1 Cutover June 2016 2M D/46G June 19 Quick delivery / deployment for high traffic EC network h2 Cutover Aug 2016 4M D/49G High Reliability & High Elasticity Based on Cloudification Architecture 11
Gi LAN Consolidation in EU Operator Embedded Traffic Classifier & Flexible Traffic CRF Gx MANO Restful Service Chain Controller Steering SFC roxy SFC roxy SFC roxy Service Chaining Workgroup Define Service Chain Forwarding Mechanism Reference from IETF RFC7665 Standard Status : Already formally approved Flexible Mobile Service Steering Group Traffic Classifier Service Switch NSH: Service Header MAC I UD NSH Service Chain ID Define Service Chain Selection olicy Control Reference from 23.203 Standard Status : arameters still under discussion, frozen in Aug.2016 12
Overlay NB-IoT Core for TTM & Agile Status NB-IoT Core ower Saving Optimization Device Authentication NAS Optimization World s First NB-IoT Field E2E re-standardization Solution Exploration Guiding NB-IoT Industry Benefit from NFV Solution vusn vugw U2000/ VNFM Smart Metering Application Low entry cost for NB-IOT trial CIoT UE (Iceni chip) CIoT RAN Cloud Infrastructure vs. Start Field Trial Completion of hase1 field trial 3G R14 Commercial Quick deployment 6~9 months vs. 2~3 months 10/2015 12/2015 09/2016 12/2016 Easy maintenance vs. 13
Key Takeaways: Single -> Cloudification-> Service Oriented Cloudification with layered architecture Decomposition/Composition in C/U plane Static deployment -> Flexible and service oriented placement Business Case Diverse Business from Mass Market and vertical segments 14
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