Publications
Research publications from the Networked Wireless Systems Laboratory
RAVIN: A Resource-aware VNF Placement Scheme with Performance Guarantees
Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Antony Franklin, Vishal Siva Kumar Giduturi, Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) enables carriers to replace dedicated middleboxes with Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) consolidated on a few shared servers. However, the question of how (and even whether) one …
RETALIN: A Queue Aware Uplink Scheduling Scheme for Reducing Scheduling Signaling Overhead in 5G NR
Veerendra Kumar Gautam, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma
Flexible numerology in 5G New Radio (NR) helps to reduce End-to-End (E2E) delay by supporting different slot duration options. But, higher numerologies can increase signaling overhead (interms of Scheduling Requests …
Towards Energy Efficient Functional Split and Baseband Function Placement for 5G RAN
Antony Franklin, Nabhasmita Sen
The energy efficiency of 5G and beyond 5G(B5G) networks is critical for reducing the high operational expenditure (OPEX) of mobile network operators. In 5G RAN, functional split enables the disaggregation …
ZETA: A Zero-Trust Security based Forensic-Ready Solution for Perimeter-less Enterprise Networks
Maruthi S. Inukonda, Jatin Tarachandani, Imtiaz Ahmed, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Sparsh Mittal
Enterprises are adopting software-defined perimeter (also known as perimeter-less network) due to factors such as cloud computing, remote work, and mobile devices. Software-defined perimeter creates a large attack surface that …
FlexCore: Leveraging XDP-SCTP for Scalable and Resilient Network Slice Service in Future 5G Core
Bhavishya Sharma, Shwetha Vittal, Antony Franklin
The control plane of 5G Core (5GC) is typically shared among multiple dependent network slices of the data plane. But as the number of dependent slices and services on the …
JARS: A Joint Allocation of Radio and System Resources for Virtualized Radio Access Networks
Keval A Malde, Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli, Bhavishya Sharma, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Antony Franklin
Mobile operators are widely adopting Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to get the benefits of virtualization, including ease of deployment, flexibility, and cost savings. NFV allows multiple virtualized Radio Access Networks …
Slice aware baseband function splitting and placement in disaggregated 5G Radio Access Network
Nabahasmita Sen and Antony Franklin, "
5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) are undergoing numerous architectural changes to enable higher flexibility and efficiency in mobile networks. Unlike traditional mobile networks, baseband functions in 5G are disaggregated into …
Greedy Algorithms for Finding Entanglement Swap Paths in Quantum Networks
Anoop Kumar Pandey, Anubhav Srivastava, Shuhul Handoo, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, MV Panduranga Rao
The entanglement swap primitive facilitates the establishment of shared entanglement between non-adjacent nodes in a quantum network. This shared entanglement can subsequently be used for executing quantum communication protocols. The …
LOCOMOTIVE 5G Core for 6G ready Resilient and Highly Available Network Slices and SFCs
Sourav Sarkar, Shwetha Vittal, Antony Franklin
The presence of a Load Balancer (LB)s is much significant to keep up the High Availability (HA) and resilience of the scalable 5G Core (5GC). The whole system may collapse …
On Enhancing Semi-Persistent Scheduling in 5G NR V2X to support Emergency Communication Services in Highly Congested Scenarios
Suranjan Daw, Anwesha Kar, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma
3GPP Rel. 16 introduced 5G New Radio (NR) Vehicle to Everything (V2X) to support advanced use cases in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) with stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, which …
SENTINEL: Self Protecting 5G Core Control Plane from DDoS Attacks for High Availability Service
Aditya Chilukuri, Shwetha Vittal, Antony Franklin
Current advancements in the 5G network slicing admit a huge number of users avail a variety of services from the 5G Core network (5GC). While this is impressive, it opens …
Demonstration of 5G-MEC assisted Location Services for Mission-Critical Applications
Supriya Tambe, Shwetha Vittal, Pratik Abhijeet Bendre, Supriya Kumari and Antony Franklin, "
FlexSFC: Flexible Resource Allocation and VNF Parallelism for Improved SFC Placement
Sagar Agarwal, Venkatarami Reddy Chintapalli, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma
To reduce the processing delay from the sequentially running virtual network functions (VNFs) in a service function chain (SFC), network function parallelism (NFP) is introduced that allows VNFs of the …
HARNESS: High Availability supportive Self Reliant Network Slicing in 5G Networks
Shwetha Vittal, Antony Franklin, "
Intelligent Admission and Placement of O-RAN Slices Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Antony Franklin, Nabhasmita Sen
Network slicing is a key feature of 5G and beyond networks. Intelligent management of slices is important for reaping its highest benefits which needs further exploration. Focusing only on one …