Softwarization of Mobile Network Functions towards Agile and Energy Efficient 5G Architectures: A Survey

Figure 3

Dockerized EPC on FLARE node [14, 15]. The slice “slicer” works as a controller to distribute packets to an individual slice according to the input/output port the packets use or to the tag information that they may contain. PCI means “peripheral component interconnect” and acts as an interface between the data and the control slices.