讲演摘要

The introduction of 5G is radically changing the mobile network architecture with new instruments for virtualizing most of the basic network functions, facilitating the programmability of application specific functions both at network core and edge, and partitioning the radio access and transport resources so as to optimize the support of a large set of vertical application scenarios. This evolution has required a big research effort to tackle non-trivial technological problems. However, the new scenario is stimulating quite big changes in the economic relations and in the roles of mobile market players, that require new flexible solutions for the allocation of infrastructure and transmission resources to competing operators. The system evolution beyond 5G is then expected to provide new solutions that enable the coexistence of multiple and autonomous decision entities often pursuing conflicting objectives.

This talk will make a link between the technical instruments for network slicing and virtualization on one side and the models for analysing the competition between market players for acquiring the resources for running their applications and serve their customers. It will also make the case for a new approach to infrastructure sharing for mobile networks based on the idea that network resources, both at the wireless access and the core network, can be traded dynamically on a real-time market where virtual operators or tenants compete to obtain the resources to serve their users.

讲演者简介

Antonio Capone is Full Professor at Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI), where he is deputy Dean of the School of Industrial and Information Engineering, coordinator of the Master program in Telecommunication Engineering, and director of the ANTLab. His expertise is on networking and his main research activities include radio resource management in wireless networks, traffic management in software defined networks, network planning and optimization. On these topics he has published more than 250 peer-reviewed.  He serves in the TPC of major conferences in networking, he is editor of IEEE Trans. on Mobile Computing, and Computer Communications, and he was editor of ACM/IEEE Trans. on Networking and Computer Networks. He is senior member of the IEEE.