Hybrid Network Slicing: Composing Network Slices based on VNFs, CNFs Network Services

Abstract

This paper presents the creation of Network Slices, which are composed of Network Services that are either composed of Cloud-native Network Functions or Virtual Network Functions. This is referred to as Hybrid Network Slice. In addition to describing this idea, this paper demonstrates the benefits of Hybrid Network Slices. This idea has been validated in an immersive-media pilot. An Hybrid Network Slice and a classical Network Slice deployments have been compared in order to validate the benefits from the hybrid case.