2016 IEEE Winter Academy on Internet of Things

CDSA and BSON: The Two Key Enablers of Lean, Elastic and Proactive Wireless Networks Needed for Future IoT

Dr. Ali Imran, The University of Oklahoma, USA; Prof. Muhammad Ali Imran, University of Glasgow, UK

Realization of an all-encompassing IoT supporting 5G network hinges on enablers that can make the future wireless networks lean, elastic and proactive. This tutorial will provide a novel prospective on how the road towards an IoT supporting networks can be paved from the crossroads of: Control and Data Plane Split Architecture (CDSA) based RAN and Big Data Enabled SON (BSON). The presenters of this tutorial are authors of seminal papers on CDSA and BSON and are leading several international projects in this space. Leveraging this experience, the overcharging goal of this tutorial is to discuss answers to following questions: 1) What requirements of IoT call for a paradigm shift from conventional cellular architecture and design?; 2) What characteristics these requirements induce in design space of an IoT supporting wireless network, e.g., 5G?; 3) How a system design based on CDSA and BSON can ensure a network that can support range of IoT applications?; 4) What is dark data and how it can act as key enabler to implement CDSA and BSON to support IoT?. 5) How does a CDSA and BSON based system design fare in terms of different KPIs against a conventional design such as HetNet for supporting IoT?