Towards 5G Network Slicing for the V2X Ecosystem
Claudia Campolo, Antonella Molinaro, Antonio Iera, Ramon R. Fontes, Christian Esteve Rothenberg · 2018
The automotive vertical market is currently undergoing key technological transformations as the number of connected and more autonomous vehicles grows, thus realizing the Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication ecosystem. Such a revolution raises unprecedented challenges to the ICT players that have to guarantee ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliable connectivity under high-mobility and high-density conditions. By allowing an operator to flexibly provide dedicated logical networks with customer-specific (virtualized) functionalities over a common physical infrastructure, network slicing candidates itself as a prominent solution to support V2X over upcoming programmable and softwarized 5G systems. In this paper, we share our vision about V2X network slicing, by pinpointing key requirements and providing a set of design guidelines, aligned with ongoing 3GPP standard specifications and network softwarization directions.