Evaluation Methodology for Virtual Base Station Platforms in Radio Access Networks

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2867550

	Evaluation Methodology for Virtual Base Station Platforms in Radio Access Networks
	Tian, Lin 1,2; Zhou, Yiqing 1,2; Wang, Yuanyuan 1,2; Yang, Jun 1,2; Sun, Qian 1,2; Yuan, Jinhong 3; Yang, Bingqiang 4
	2018
发表期刊	IEEE ACCESS
ISSN	2169-3536
卷号	6 页码:49366-49374
摘要	Virtual base stations (BS) with scalable resources and flexible functions are necessary for the fifth-generation and future mobile systems. The virtualization platform is the fundamental component of virtual BSs and plays a very important role in determining BS performance. As BS virtualization platforms can be provided by both conventional BS manufactures and third-party software vendors, it is crucial to define unified methodology to evaluate the performance of different virtualization platforms. In this paper, for the first time in literature, we design a set of comprehensive performance metrics and propose evaluation methods for BS virtualization platforms. More specifically, there are two types of metrics, i.e., micro level and macro level metrics. Micro level metrics quantify the virtualization platforms' basic performances including real-time performance and virtualization overhead. Macro level metrics quantify the platforms ability to support BS resource and function virtualization while satisfying the radio access network requirements. Correspondingly, two-level evaluation methodology is designed to collect micro and macro level metrics from different parts of a virtual BS by running proper workloads. Finally, using the proposed methodology, two representative virtualization platforms, i.e., KVM hypervisor and Super BS virtualization platform are evaluated. These experiments verify that the proposed methodology can effectively evaluate the performance of different platforms to provide a valuable reference for the selection of virtual BS platforms. Moreover, the proposed evaluation methodology is a significant step toward constructing an open ecosystem for radio access networks.
关键词	5G virtual base station virtualization platforms performance metrics evaluation method
DOI	10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2867550
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[61431001] ; National Science and Technology Major Project[2018ZX03001017]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering ; Telecommunications
WOS类目	Computer Science, Information Systems ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications
WOS记录号	WOS:000452401200001
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
引用统计	被引频次：5[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/3523
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Tian, Lin
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Mobile Comp & Pervas Device, Beijing 100080, Peoples R China 3.Univ New South Wales, Sch Elect Engn & Telecommun, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia 4.Huawei Technol Co Ltd, Technol Planning Dept, Lab 2012, Shenzhen 518129, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tian, Lin,Zhou, Yiqing,Wang, Yuanyuan,et al. Evaluation Methodology for Virtual Base Station Platforms in Radio Access Networks[J]. IEEE ACCESS,2018,6:49366-49374.
APA	Tian, Lin.,Zhou, Yiqing.,Wang, Yuanyuan.,Yang, Jun.,Sun, Qian.,...&Yang, Bingqiang.(2018).Evaluation Methodology for Virtual Base Station Platforms in Radio Access Networks.IEEE ACCESS,6,49366-49374.
MLA	Tian, Lin,et al."Evaluation Methodology for Virtual Base Station Platforms in Radio Access Networks".IEEE ACCESS 6(2018):49366-49374.