Virtualized Wireless Access in the Green Sustainable Telcommunication Cloud System

This project is primarily focused on virtualizing wireless access network so that multiple operators can share the same
physical resources while being able to stay isolated from each other. The basic idea is to allow wireless access points
from different operators form a single virtual access point that efficiently manages its available resources. The goal is
to exploit the advantages that can be obtained from virtualizing the air interface (i.e., spectrum sharing), protocol
virtualization and flow-based virtualization. We consider wireless technologies with long and short ranges, e.g.,
cellular networks and wireless local area networks. In particular, we investigate on the Long Term Evolution (LTE) and
WiFi wireless systems. We will mainly focus on spectrum-based virtualization which is the deepest form of
virtualization and is expected to offer more flexibility than protocol- and flow-based ones; it should, however, be
noted that spectrum-based virtualizations require flow-based virtualization to isolate the network traffic.

Faculty Supervisor:

Fabrice Labeau

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program: