Architecture (SBA) • Service-oriented design: modular elements as virtualized functions or microservices • Service-oriented mechanism: elements serve one another • Service-based interface: a way to produce or consume services with request-respond method
Remarks • 5GC uses SDN and NFV in the SBA to support network slicing for multi use cases • NFs in 5GC can be created dynamically to provide network slice for each use case • Each network slice has different set of NFs, and it can share set of NFs with other slices
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