A comparison between Emergency Calls over 4G and 5G Network Slicing

• Maria G. Lima Damasceno Sidia
• Jussif J. Abularach Arnez Sidia
• Renata K. Gomes Dos Reis Sidia
• Caio B. Bezerra De Souza Sidia
• Jéssica Da Silva Gomes Sidia
• Isaac A. Barros Gomes Sidia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/sbrc_estendido.2024.1704

Resumo

Emergency calls (eCall) via IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) were already used in Fourth Generation (4G) mobile networks so they were provided in high-definition (HD) voice calling. With the evolution to Fifth Generation (5G) networks, the concept of Network Slicing (NS) was introduced where the IMS network and its services are part of the Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) slice. This article seeks to compare the Quality of Service (QoS) of emergency calls over 4G and 5G by applying the eMBB slice. The results present the evaluation of QoS metrics i.e. packet loss, throughput and jitter for each eCall architecture, demonstrating the best performance of 5G in terms of QoS.

Referências

Arnez, J. J. A., Damasceno, M. G. L., Gomes, J. D. S., Oliveira, F. F. D. S., De Oliveira, G. A. S., and Silva, W. M. (2023). Evaluation of emergency calls (eCall) using voice and video over IMS in 5G/NR mobile network. In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Engineering Veracruz (ICEV), pages 1–6. IEEE.

Damasceno, M. G. L., Arnez, J. J. A., Silva, W. A. E., Souza, C. B. B. D., Reis, R. K. G. D., and Tribuzy, L. C. (2023). Comparison between emergency calls over VoLTE and VoWiFi using IMS network. In 2023 6th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), pages 1–7.

De Souza, C. B. B., Arnez, J. J. A., Fernandes, T., Alves, C. A. T., and De Sousa, J. O. (2022). Analysis of power consumption in 4G VoLTE and 5G VoNR over IMS network. In 2022 IEEE 27th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), pages 59–64. IEEE.

Fan, Y., Su, T., and Chen, Z. (2023). Emergency communication network coverage method based on uav self-organizing wireless communication technology. In 2023 IEEE 6th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (PRAI), pages 1177–1181.

G.C., D., Ladas, A., Sambo, Y. A., Pervaiz, H., Politis, C., and Imran, M. A. (2019). An overview of post-disaster emergency communication systems in the future networks. IEEE Wireless Communications, 26(6):132–139.

Kourtis, M.-A., Batistatos, M., Xilouris, G., Sarlas, T., Anagnostopoulos, T., Chochliouros, I. P., and Kourtis, A. (2021). 5G slicing for emergency communications. In 2021 Eighth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS), pages 1–6.

Kukkalli, H., Maheshwari, S., Seskar, I., and Skorupski, M. (2020). Evaluation of multi-operator dynamic 5G network slicing for vehicular emergency scenarios. In 2020 IFIP Networking Conference (Networking), pages 761–766.

Lamping, U. and Warnicke, E. (2004). Wireshark user’s guide. Interface, 4(6):1.

Popovski, P., Trillingsgaard, K. F., Simeone, O., and Durisi, G. (2018). 5G wireless network slicing for eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC: A communication-theoretic view. IEEE Access, 6:55765–55779.

Shafi, M., Molisch, A. F., Smith, P. J., Haustein, T., Zhu, P., De Silva, P., Tufvesson, F., Benjebbour, A., and Wunder, G. (2017). 5G: A tutorial overview of standards, trials, challenges, deployment, and practice. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 35(6):1201–1221.