A Cloud-ICT Convergence Service Architecture SDN/NFV powered
Qiang Wu, Chunming Wu, Haifeng Zhou, Yansong Wang · 2016
The core-network suffers from inflexible and expensive equipment. Service chaining is a common but important problem of network management in Gi-LAN. The requirements of business agility drive the service architecture to services flexibility and scalability. To address these challenges, SDN centralized control and the NFV concept of CT reconstruction with IT virtualization technology are used to enable a reform in the mobile core network and the Gi-LAN service field. In this paper, following the technical trend of 5G, we propose the Cloud-ICT Convergence Service Architecture to construct an open and elastic digital information ecosystem. This architecture is a solution that provides flexibility in managing infrastructure and uses virtualization to dynamically orchestrate service chains on demand. The information ecosystem constructed in this architecture can provide the functional convergence of IT&CT services in addition to the traditional cellular network functions.