Title: A Utility-Driven Multi-Queue Admission Control Solution for Network Slicing,
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.