Optimum Network Slicing for Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) Services in Campus Networks

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Main Authors: Zacarias, Iulisloi, Carpio, Francisco, Drummond, André Costa, Jukan, Admela
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Published: 2025
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author Zacarias, Iulisloi
Carpio, Francisco
Drummond, André Costa
Jukan, Admela
author_facet Zacarias, Iulisloi
Carpio, Francisco
Drummond, André Costa
Jukan, Admela
contents Within 3GPP, the campus network architecture has evolved as a deployment option for industries and can be provisioned using network slicing over already installed 5G public network infrastructure. In campus networks, the ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) service category is of major interest for applications with strict latency and high-reliability requirements. One way to achieve high reliability in a shared infrastructure is through resource isolation, whereby network slicing can be optimized to adequately reserve computation and transmission capacity. This paper proposes an approach for vertical slicing the radio access network (RAN) to enable the deployment of multiple and isolated campus networks to accommodate URLLC services. To this end, we model RAN function placement as a mixed integer linear programming problem with URLLC-related constraints. We demonstrate that our approach can find optimal solutions in real-world scenarios. Furthermore, unlike existing solutions, our model considers the user traffic flow from a known source node on the network's edge to an unknown \textit{a priori} destination node. This flexibility could be explored in industrial campus networks by allowing dynamic placement of user plane functions (UPFs) to serve the URLLC.
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spellingShingle Optimum Network Slicing for Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) Services in Campus Networks
Zacarias, Iulisloi
Carpio, Francisco
Drummond, André Costa
Jukan, Admela
Networking and Internet Architecture
Within 3GPP, the campus network architecture has evolved as a deployment option for industries and can be provisioned using network slicing over already installed 5G public network infrastructure. In campus networks, the ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) service category is of major interest for applications with strict latency and high-reliability requirements. One way to achieve high reliability in a shared infrastructure is through resource isolation, whereby network slicing can be optimized to adequately reserve computation and transmission capacity. This paper proposes an approach for vertical slicing the radio access network (RAN) to enable the deployment of multiple and isolated campus networks to accommodate URLLC services. To this end, we model RAN function placement as a mixed integer linear programming problem with URLLC-related constraints. We demonstrate that our approach can find optimal solutions in real-world scenarios. Furthermore, unlike existing solutions, our model considers the user traffic flow from a known source node on the network's edge to an unknown \textit{a priori} destination node. This flexibility could be explored in industrial campus networks by allowing dynamic placement of user plane functions (UPFs) to serve the URLLC.
title Optimum Network Slicing for Ultra-reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) Services in Campus Networks
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15429