A Survey on Open-Source-Defined Wireless Networks: Framework, Key Technology, and Implementation

作     者：Zhao, Liqiang Bala, Muhammad Muhammad Gang, Wu Chengkang, Pan Yannan, Yuan Zhigang, Tian Tseng, Yu-Chee Xiang, Chen Shen, Bin Chih-Lin, I. 

作者机构：The State Key Laboratory of Integrated Service Networks School of Telecommunications Engineering Xidian University Xi’an710071 China National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on Communications University of Electronic Science and Technology of China China China Mobile Research Institute China Communication Research Institute Vivo Mobile Communication Co. Ltd Beijing China Beijing National Research Center for Information Science Technology Tsinghua University Beijing China Artificial Intelligence National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Taiwan School of Electronics and Information Technology Sun Yat-Sen University Guangdong Province Guangzhou510006 China Chongqing Municipal Lab of Mobile Communication Technology Chongqing400-065 China China Mobile Research Institute Beijing China 

出 版 物：《arXiv》 (arXiv)

年 卷 期：2022年

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主　　题：Wireless networks 

摘      要：The realization of open-source-defined wireless networks in the telecommunication domain is accomplished through the fifth-generation network (5G). In contrast to it predecessors (3G and 4G), the 5G network can support a wide variety of heterogeneous use cases with challenging requirements from both the Internet and Internet of Things (IoT). The future sixth-generation (6G) network will not only extend 5G capabilities but also innovate new functionalities to address emerging academic and engineering challenges. The research community has identified these challenges could be overcome by open-source-defined wireless networks, which is based on open-source software and hardware. In this survey, we present an overview of different aspects of open-source-defined wireless networks, comprising motivation, frameworks, key technologies, and implementation. We start by introducing the motivation and explore several frameworks with classification into three different categories: black-box, grey-box, and white-box. We review research efforts related to open-source-defined Core Network (CN), Radio Access Network (RAN), Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC), the capabilities of security threats, open-source hardware, and various implementations, including testbeds. The last but most important in this survey, lessons learned, future research direction, open research issues, pitfalls and limitations of existing surveys on open-source wireless networks are included to motivate and encourage future research. © 2022, CC BY.