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Towards Achieving High Performance in 5G Mobile Packet Core’s User Plane Function
Last Updated: Feb 27, 2018
As the industry is preparing for early 5G services that are more traffic demanding, the mobile packet core system expects to receive exponential amounts of user plane loads. This white paper presents a new architecture for the user plane function (UPF) by analyzing various features required in UPF by modeling packet streams, resource consumption by software and hardware architectures, and how various packet sizes affect the UPF’s overall performance. The analyses identify functions in which packet processing can be efficiently implemented.