Massively Flexible Mobile Systems

Authors

  • André Perdigão 1) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal 2) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6854-8115
  • José Quevedo Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Daniel Corujo 1) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal 2) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Rui L. Aguiar 1) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal 2) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.2066

Keywords:

5G, mMTC, testbed, network slicing, IoT

Abstract

5G network is expected to provide mMTC (massive Machine Type Communications or massive Internet of Things [mIoT]) slices in the near future, coinciding with expectations for a significant increase in the IoT global market. Many new IoT use cases are anticipated to be deployed using 5G which requires mMTC performance. Release 17 introduces several mMTC features. However, as of release 19, 3GPP does not claim full support of mMTC slices.

Even if 5G cannot fully support mMTC network slices yet, several network features are already standardized and included in commercial-graded 5G networks. These features allow for the reconfiguration of the network to provide communication performance close to what is provided in mMTC slices. This paper analyzes and evaluates several of these features, demonstrating that current 5G networks are already capable of supporting some of the mMTC use cases expected to be deployed in the future.

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Author Biographies

André Perdigão, 1) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal 2) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

André Perdigão is a PhD student at the Univ. of Aveiro and a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações. Working on optimizing industrial communication systems based on 5G. More focused on QoS and slicing, but analysing any functionality of 5G that can be used in I4.0.

José Quevedo, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal

José Quevedo received his PhD in Telecommunications from the MAP-tele Doctoral Programme in Telecommunications in 2020. His early research activities were focused on Information-Centric Networking (ICN) approaches for supporting Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. This work, conducted in the Telecommunications and Networking – Av Group (TN-Av) at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT-Av) and University of Aveiro (UA), Portugal, has been disseminated in book chapters, conference and journal papers, and as contributions to open-source software. He has been involved in the different stages of several research projects (e.g., H2020 5Growth, H2020 5GASP). He has been further involved in the academy by working as an Invited Adjunct Professor at the University of Aveiro-Águeda School of Technology and Management (ESTGA). Currently, he is the executive manager of the 5GAIner laboratory and a Senior Researcher at IT-Av working in areas related to networking protocols, network programmability and 5G and beyond systems.

Daniel Corujo, 1) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal 2) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Daniel Corujo is an Associate Professor from the University of Aveiro, where he concluded his PhD on Communication Middleware for the Future Mobile Internet, in 2013. He was the coordinator of the Telecommunications and Networking research team at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, in Aveiro, Portugal, a team of over 50 people, from 2017 to 2018. He has been an active researcher and contributor to standardization in the fields of mobility management, through the IETF/IRTF, and Media Independent Handovers, through the IEEE. He has pursued such concepts under the scope of a broad range of EU FP7 research projects since 2007, such as DAIDALOS, OneLab2, 4WARD, MEDIEVAL, OFELIA and 5GROWTH, where he also played key roles from proposal elaboration to task and work package co-leading. He is currently the WP leader in the national 5G Mobilizer project. Parallel to his 13 years of experience in mobility management research, he has been more recently developing work in the areas of 5G, Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined Networking and Information-Centric Networking, deploying new visions and enhancements of such concepts over wireless networks, in national and international research projects. He is Vice-chair for the IEEE ComSoc PT Chapter.

Rui L. Aguiar, 1) Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, Portugal 2) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

Rui L. Aguiar is currently a Full Professor at Universidade de Aveiro. He was the founder of the ATNOG research group, an advanced telecommunication research group at the Universidade de Aveiro and is currently co-coordinating a research line in Instituto de Telecomunicações, in the area of Networks and Services. He has been an advisor for the Portuguese Secretaria de Estado das Comunicações and a member of the task force for 5G cybersecurity. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a member of ACM. He has served as the Portugal Chapter Chair of IEEE Communications Society and has been serving as Steering Board Chair of Networld Europe, the European ETP representing the telecommunications community, engaged in the discussions of the future European R&D work programmes for telecommunications. As further community engagement, he has served as Technical and General (co)Chair of several conferences (ICNS, ICT, ISCC, Mobiarch, Monami, NTMS, etc). He is a regular keynote speaker in the future of mobile communications and digital society, with dozens of talks across the whole world. He is an associated editor of Wiley’s Emerging Telecommunication Technologies and Springer’s Wireless Networks.

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Published

2025-02-07

How to Cite

Perdigão, A. ., Quevedo, J. ., Corujo, D. ., & Aguiar, R. L. . (2025). Massively Flexible Mobile Systems. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 20(06), 1321–1344. https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.2066

Issue

2024: Vol 20 Iss 6

Section

SW2023: Massive Information by A Plethora of Devices (AIMS)