Failure management insights in 5G using ns-3 network simulator

Abstract

Failure management has been one of the most researched fields in cellular networks paradigm. Networks operators has experienced many problems on their deployments with each of the past generations. 5G networks aim high to encompass a wide variety of services, which means a large amount of resources on network management and failure resolution. The objective of the present work is to use the previous generation as base and provide, together with the updates on 3GPP specification, insights about what would be the problems that networks will handle. For this, they were identified and categorized some of these failures at the same time their effect on system performance was evaluated.