Microservice-based Management and Orchestration of 5G Core Network
Manhua Zhu, Xuefei Duan, Haiyan Tu, Yunfeng Wang, Guorong Zhou, Xianmei Jin, Liqiang Zhao · 2022 IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) · 2022
5G spawns plenty of application scenarios to meet the diverse requirements of vertical industries, which poses challenges to the management and orchestration (MANO) of the 5G core network (5GC). This paper provides a microservice-based MANO for 5GC, so as to realize the on-demand deployment. Firstly, we propose a microservice-based MANO plane of 5GC. Secondly, we design the network functions (NF) and the transfer processes among them in the MANO plane. Finally, an experimental platform is built and the experimental results show that the microservice-based MANO has better resource utilization and disaster tolerance capabilities compared with the monolithic architecture.