Interfacing 5G Orchestrator With Data Analytics Functions [From the Guest Editors]

During the past few years, research and standardization communities have worked collaboratively to develop a composable 5G network for a digitized, connected world of humans and machines. This has been evident in every segment of the new communication system, including the powerful and reachable air interface supported by New Radio, multiaccess edge computing (MEC), a new transport network featuring dense wavelength-division multiplexing, the service-based architecture of the 5G core network, end-to-end (E2E) network slicing, network function virtualization (NFV) and service automation, and so on. Using predefined policies, this softwaredriven network is tactical, restructures domains, and mobilizes resources in response to traffic changes. Therefore, the internal network interfaces, resources, functionality, and task assignment are dynamically adapted through main network orchestrators that govern all components either directly or through specific elements.