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User Plane Management Function: A Solution for Automated Deployment of UPF on cloud-native 5G Core Network Architecture
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- Authors
- Kieu-Ha Phung, Luong Vu Dung, Quang Tung Thai, Namseok Ko
- Issue Date
- 2023-10
- Citation
- International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC) 2023, pp.773-778
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- 5G and beyond mobile networks have emerged to provide QoS stringent services for the huge number of user devices with several technological enablers including edge computing, network slicing, SDF, NFV. The Service Based Architecture 5G facilitates the separation of control plane from data plane. The service establishments are directed by network functions in the control plane, while data session establishment are served by User Plane Functions located at the edge. Various UPFs combining to working network slices, serving as the anchor points for user data traffic plays a pivotal role in ensuring seamless data delivery, quality of service (QoS), edge computing, and security. This article proposes a solution to effectively manage UPF, a new network function called User Plane Management Function integrates between SMF and UPF. The point-to-point packet forwarding control protocol is replaced by the Service Based Interface. By implementing our solution, UPF deployment on each network slice can be automatically configured, easily scalable, and efficiently managed; opening the way to deploy UPFs in the cloud-native infrastructure.
- Keyword
- 5G and beyond, Cloud Computing, Service Based Architecture