5G Core Networks: Powering Digitalization

5G Core Networks: Powering Digitalization

<p>5G Networks: Powering Digitization provides an overview of the standard 5G Core, as well as giving descriptions of cloud technologies- considered central for 5G- and the key concepts in the 3GPP rel-15/16 specifications.</p> <p>Written by the authors who are heavily involved in the development of the standards and who wrote the successful EPC and 4G Packet Networks, 2<SUP>nd</SUP> edition, this book provides an authoritative reference on the technologies and standards of 3GPP’s 5G at the network layer.</p> <p>Content includes:</p> <ul> <p><li>5G Radio technologies: NR (New Radio) and the evolution of LTE, Massive MIMO, multi-user beamforming and virtual RAN; cloud technologies; web software concepts</li> <p><li>Option 3/NSA</li> <p><li>An overview of the 5G Core Architecture </li> <p><li>Detailed presentation of 5G Core key concepts</li> </ul> <p>Learn: </p> <ul> <p><li>The differences between 5G system / core network and previous incarnations of the core network</li> <p><li>How the interworking with previous standards is expected to happen</li> <p><li>Why certain functionality has been included and what is beyond the scope of 5GC</li> <p><li>How the specifications relate to state of the art web-scale concepts and virtualization technologies</li> <p><li>Which part of the specifications to find the the descriptions of certain functionality</li> <p><li>Information about how the different parts of the specifications fit together</li> <p><li>Protocol and service descriptions from an architectural and overall system perspective</li> <p><li>The main stream deployment options</li> </ul><ul><li>Provides a clear, concise and comprehensive view of 5GS/5GC</li><li>Written by established experts in the 5GS/5GC standardization process, all of whom have extensive experience and understanding of its goals, history and vision </li><li>Covers potential service and operator scenarios for each architecture</li><li>Explains the Service Based Architecture, Network Slicing and support of Edge Computing, describing the benefits they will bring</li><li>Explains what options and parts of the standards will initially be deployed in real networks, along with their migration paths</li></ul>