The METIS 5G Architecture: A Summary of METIS Work on 5G Architectures

During the last two years, the METIS project ("Mobile and wireless communications Enablers for the Twenty-twenty Information Society") has been conducting research on 5G-enabling technology components. This paper provides a summary of METIS work on 5G architectures. The architecture description is presented from different viewpoints. First, a functional architecture is presented that may lay a foundation for development of first novel 5G network...