Robert KoĊakowski
supervisor: Krzysztof Szczypiorski
The future mobile networks (5G +, 6G) are expected to support a much wider range of services with diverse and elevated requirements for user data transmission (bandwidth, delay, reliability) in comparison to the previous network generations. The broad spectrum of applications incorporates i.a., Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, road safety services, drone-based services, and entertainment (augmented and virtual reality). As a result, effective handling of user traffic ensuring required Quality of Service becomes problematic. One potential solution to satisfy the mentioned requirements is utilizing the Software Defined Networks (SDN) architectural approach in which network devices have separate control and data plane functionalities. Such separation enables dynamic reconfiguration of network components and facilitates control of user data flows within the network.
This research is focused on developing traffic engineering algorithms that will leverage the concept of the distributed SDN network and enable scalable and effective traffic handling in future mobile networks. To this end, apart from the traffic engineering applications, the full support for user mobility, including additional in-network mechanisms such as, e.g., Forked Routing or Source Routing, is planned to be provided.