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| Innovation elements/enabler | Affected network domains, NFs and layers of the architecture | Gaps addressed |
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| Telco-cloud-enabled protocol design | Controller layer functions, selected UP VNFs in Network layer | #1 |
| #2 |
| #8 |
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| Telco-cloud-aware interface design and requirements analysis | RAN-level UP (and CP) VNFs, Xn and F1 interfaces, Network layer | #1 |
| #2 |
| #9 |
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| Terminal-aware protocol design | RAN-domain CP VNFs and interfaces incl. F1 | #4, |
| #5 |
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| Inter-slice context sharing and optimisation | CN-level UP and CP NFS, M&O layer functions | #6 |
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| Inter-slice coordination | CN-domain CP NFs, service-based interfaces, Network layer | #6 |
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| Terminal analytics driven slice selection / control | CN-domain CP NFs (AMF, NSSF, NWDAF), interfaces to UE and Itf-X to M&O layer | #6 |
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| Inter-slice RRM for Dynamic TDD Scenarios | RAN (Inter-slice RRM, IM, and Unified Scheduler) | #6 |
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| Context-aware relaying mode selection | RAN (Dynamic RAN Control Unit at RRC), M&O Layer (Cross-slice M&O) | #3, |
| #6 |
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| Slice-aware RAT selection | RAN-domain CP NFs, Network, Controller and M&O layer as well as associated interfaces | #5 |
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| Inter-slice RRM using the SDN framework | RAN-domain NFs, XSC/ISC and applications, Network layer, Controller layer, interfaces: NBI, SoBI, MOLI | #5, |
| #12 |
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| Big data analytics for resource assignment | CN (NWDAF), M&O layer (Cross-slice M&O) | #4, |
| #7 |
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| Framework for slice admission control | NSMF (Cross-slice M&O), NFVO, M&O layer and respective interfaces (e.g., Os-Ma-Nfvo) | #5, |
| #6 |
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| Framework for cross-slice congestion control | NSMF (Cross-slice M&O), NFVO, M&O layer and respective interfaces (e.g., Os-Ma-Nfvo) | #5, |
| #6, |
| #12 |
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| Slice admission control using genetic optimisers | NSMF (Cross-slice M&O), NFVO, M&O layer and respective interfaces (e.g., MOLI, Os-Ma-Nfvo) | #6, |
| #12 |
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| ML-based optimisation using an extended FlexRAN implementation | RAN-domain VNFs (CP and UP), Network layer | #3, |
| #10 |
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| Computational analysis of open source mobile network stack implementations | RAN-domain VNFs (CP and UP), Network layer | #11 |
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| Measurement campaigns on the performance of higher layers of the protocol stack | Higher-layer RAN VNFs (CP and UP), Network layer | #7 |
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