5G Core Networks: Powering Digitalization

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.

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^nd edition, this book provides an authoritative reference on the technologies and standards of 3GPP’s 5G at the network layer.

Content includes:

• 5G Radio technologies: NR (New Radio) and the evolution of LTE, Massive MIMO, multi-user beamforming and virtual RAN; cloud technologies; web software concepts
• Option 3/NSA
• An overview of the 5G Core Architecture
• Detailed presentation of 5G Core key concepts

Learn:

• The differences between 5G system / core network and previous incarnations of the core network
• How the interworking with previous standards is expected to happen
• Why certain functionality has been included and what is beyond the scope of 5GC
• How the specifications relate to state of the art web-scale concepts and virtualization technologies
• Which part of the specifications to find the the descriptions of certain functionality
• Information about how the different parts of the specifications fit together
• Protocol and service descriptions from an architectural and overall system perspective
• The main stream deployment options

• Provides a clear, concise and comprehensive view of 5GS/5GC
• Written by established experts in the 5GS/5GC standardization process, all of whom have extensive experience and understanding of its goals, history and vision
• Covers potential service and operator scenarios for each architecture
• Explains the Service Based Architecture, Network Slicing and support of Edge Computing, describing the benefits they will bring
• Explains what options and parts of the standards will initially be deployed in real networks, along with their migration paths