Micro-service-based radio access network

The convergence of information, communication, and data technologies (ICDT) has been identified as one of the developing trends of the sixth generation(6G) network. Service-based architecture (SBA) as one of the promising information technology, has been preliminarily introduced into the fifth generation (5G) core network (CN) and successfully commercialized, which verifies its feasibility and effectiveness. However, SBA mainly focuses on the control plane of CN at present and the SBA-CN user plane is being studied by the industry. In addition to further evolving the SBA-CN, SBA radio access network (RAN) should also be considered to enable an end-to-end SBA, so as to meet more comprehensive and extreme requirements of future applications, as well as support fast rollout requirements of RAN devices.