Building Blocks for an Elastic Mobile Core
Lirim Osmani, Heikki Lindholm, Binoy Chemmagate, Ashwin Rao, Sasu Tarkoma, Johanna Heinonen, Hannu Flinck · 2014
The mobile core is currently served by gateways having a convoluted control plane and data plane. We abstract and modularize the key functions of these gateways, and separate the control and data plane in nwEPC, an open source implementation of the mobile access network gateways. We use our custom load balancer for the control plane to demonstrate the elasticity offered by our implementation.