# A Utility-Driven Multi-Queue Admission Control Solution for Network Slicing

## TL;DR

This paper proposes a utility-driven multi-queue admission control system for network slicing in 5G, modeling its behavior and optimizing admission to improve performance over traditional methods.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel multi-queue model for slicing admission control and develops a utility-based optimization approach for 5G network slices.

## Key findings

- System can be approximated as Markovian
- Improved performance over legacy solutions
- Effective handling of heterogeneous tenant requests

## Abstract

The combination of recent emerging technologies such as network function virtualization (NFV) and network programmability (SDN) gave birth to the Network Slicing revolution. 5G networks consist of multi-tenant infrastructures capable of offering leased network "slices" to new customers (e.g., vertical industries) enabling a new telecom business model: Slice-as-aService (SlaaS). In this paper, we aim i ) to study the slicing admission control problem by means of a multi-queuing system for heterogeneous tenant requests, ii ) to derive its statistical behavior model, and iii ) to provide a utility-based admission control optimization. Our results analyze the capability of the proposed SlaaS system to be approximately Markovian and evaluate its performance as compared to legacy solutions.