SliceNet: Enabling 5G use cases for vertical businesses

Under the keyword 5G, the future network infrastructure targets to removal of limitations to current networks by addressing the challenges in managing, controlling and orchestrating a fully softwarized network and services running on the infrastructure. The use cases motivating 5G are so diverse and challenging that 5G networks must be customizable for a very broad range of individual scenarios. The Project SliceNet, part of the European 5G infrastructure PPP, is set to implement end-to-end multi-domain network slicing that provides a management plane for slices, as well as facilitating vertical business added value, coupled with optimized Quality of Experience (QoE) for the end users. This paper analyses the requirements derived from a set of use cases from different vertical industries including: Smart Grid Self-Healing, e-Health Smart/Connected Ambulance and Smart City, which collectively guide the development of the SliceNet architecture meeting the relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for these use cases