A Network Architect’s Guide to 5G
- Length: 432 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
- Publication Date: 2022-05-26
- ISBN-10: 0137376847
- ISBN-13: 9780137376841
- Sales Rank: #2673438 (See Top 100 Books)
As 5G transforms mobile usage and services, network professionals will need to significantly evolve their transport network architectures towards greater sophistication and stronger integration with radio networks, and facilitate transition towards cloud-native 5G mobile core. Until now, however, most guides to 5G have foregrounded its RF/radio and mobile core innovations, not its implications for data networks.A Network Architect’s Guide to 5G fills the gap,giving network architects, designers, and engineers essential knowledge for designing and planning their own 5G-ready networks.
Drawing on decades of experience with global service providers and enterprise networks, the authors illuminate new and evolving network technologies necessary for building 5G-capable networks, such as segment routing, network slicing, Timing and Synchronization, distributed data centers for edge computing, integration with public cloud, and more. They explain how 5G blurs boundaries between mobile core, radio access, and transport, as well as the changes in the composition of a traditional cell site with the adoption of Open and Virtualized RAN resulting in a transition to mobile xHaul. Every chapter builds on earlier coverage, culminating in a “big picture” presentation of a complete 5G network design.
- Understand the evolution of mobile technologies over the generation leading to 5G’s foundational concepts and principles.
- Explore 5G changes to Radio Access Networks (RAN), the Mobile Core, Mobile Transport, and the need for tighter integration between them.
- Use Segment Routing to architect simplified, SDN-capable networks, and enable network slicing for 5G.
- Rethink transport design to incorporate Far-Edge, Edge, and public-cloud based data centers augmenting centralized DCs to support distributed peering and Multi-access Edge Compute.
- Provide guidance to meet the criteria and requirements for various aspects of Fronthaul, Midhaul, and Backhaul architecture, such as transport protocol evaluation, latency consideration, routing design, QoS modeling, network device selection, and more.
- Forge a cohesive 5G network architecture by combining mobile communications principles with advanced transport technologies.
Cover Page
Title Page
Contents
Table of Contents
1. A Peek at the Past
Brief History of Pre-Cellular Mobile Networks
The Very First Cellular Networks: 1G
Second Generation (2G) Cellular Networks
Generation Two and Half (2.5G)
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)
Third Generation (3G)
Summary
References
2. Anatomy of Mobile Communication Networks
Understanding Radio Access Network
Mobile Transport and Backhaul
Mobile Core Concepts
Summary
References
3. Mobile Networks Today [This content is currently in development.]
4. The Promise of 5G
Emerging Trends and Expectations from Mobile Networks
5G Technology Enablers
5G Service Offerings
Summary
References
5. 5G Fundamentals [This content is currently in development.]
6. Emerging Technologies for 5G-ready Networks: Segment Routing [This content is currently in development.]
7. Essential Technologies for 5G-ready Networks: DC Architecture and Edge Computing [This content is currently in development.]
8. Essential Technologies for 5G-ready Networks: Transport Services [This content is currently in development.]
9. Essential Technologies for 5G-ready Networks: Timing and Synchronization [This content is currently in development.]
10. Designing and Implementing 5G Network Architecture [This content is currently in development.]
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