CHARISMA: Converged heterogeneous advanced 5G cloud-RAN architecture for intelligent and secure media access
Michael Charles Parker, Geza Koczian, Anthony Olufemi Tesimi Adeyemi-Ejeye, Terence Quinlan, S.D. Walker, A. Legarrea, Muhammad Shuaib Siddiqui, Eduard Escalona, Spiros Spirou, Dimitrios S. Kritharidis, Kai Habel, Volker Jungnickel, Eleni Trouva, Anastasios Kourtis, Y. Liu, M. Sander Frigau, J.C. Point, George Lyberopoulos, Eleni Theodoropoulou, Konstantinos Filis · 2016
5G networks aims to tackle the complex demands of emerging business paradigms, such as Smart Cities, eHealth, and Industry 4.0. In this paper, a hierarchical, distributed-intelligence 5G architecture is described, offering low latency, security, and open access as features intrinsic to its design. SDN and NFV principles are employed to create a networking solution applicable to a large number of high-specification 5G use case scenarios.