Conclusion and Future Works

As the development of 5G technologies enters a new stage, more and more vertical industries are deploying 5G systems to drive the application of emerging services. With the maturity of network slicing technologies, the differentiated demands of these emerging services can be satisfied by creating different type of slices on a common infrastructure network, reducing CAPEX/OPEX costs and improving resource utility. However, the addition of vertical industries brings challenges to multi-tenant network slicing. The complexity of heterogeneous resource management and E2E slices orchestration is increasing. Moreover, in most verticals, such as industrial Internet of Things scenarios, the number of ultra-low-latency and high-reliability service is gradually increasing, which requires customized resource allocation of network slices. To follow the trend of wireless networks from the consumer Internet to the industrial Internet, this book begins with the enabling technologies of network slicing, creates a new mode of cooperation between infrastructure networks for multi-tenant slicing, takes advantages of AI technologies, realizes the rapid deployment and orchestration of end-to-end slicing, enables intelligent control to avoid the service quality degradation of slices, and further proposes a customized slice management scheme which is suitable for industrial scenarios.