# Management and Orchestration of Network Slices in 5G, Fog, Edge and Clouds

## TL;DR

This paper surveys the management and orchestration of network slices across 5G, Fog, Edge, and Cloud platforms, focusing on technologies like SDN and NFV, and discusses future challenges and trends.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of network slicing techniques and management strategies across multiple platforms, highlighting gaps and future research directions.

## Key findings

- Survey of state-of-the-art slicing approaches in 5G, Fog, and Cloud
- Identification of challenges in end-to-end slice orchestration
- Discussion of future trends and research gaps

## Abstract

Network slicing allows network operators to build multiple isolated virtual networks on a shared physical network to accommodate a wide variety of services and applications. With network slicing, service providers can provide a cost-efficient solution towards meeting diverse performance requirements of deployed applications and services. Despite slicing benefits, End-to-End orchestration and management of network slices is a challenging and complicated task. In this chapter, we intend to survey all the relevant aspects of network slicing, with the focus on networking technologies such as Software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) in 5G, Fog/Edge and Cloud Computing platforms. To build the required background, this chapter begins with a brief overview of 5G, Fog/Edge and Cloud computing, and their interplay. Then we cover the 5G vision for network slicing and extend it to the Fog and Cloud computing through surveying the state-of-the-art slicing approaches in these platforms. We conclude the chapter by discussing future directions, analyzing gaps and trends towards the network slicing realization.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1812.00593