Bringing 5G Into User's Smart Home

A successful 5G Smart Home must be able to support 5G devices along with WLAN devices. This is not possible with the 5G specifications, and to remedy the situation, this paper proposes a 5G Smart Home Solution that combines the 5G network slice concept with a femtocell home router, supporting both 5G and WLAN access technologies. While making use of standard technologies, the solution has proven to be efficient and reliable. For that purpose, in this paper we propose a femtocell network slice architecture for 5G, utilizing WLAN in order to connect the user's smart home with the distributed cloud services.