Architecture vision for the 5G era

Requirements and use cases for the 5G era are demanding in key dimensions such as throughput, latency, scalability, convergence and automation. From these, an end-to-end architectural vision has been developed in a holistic way and including novel architectural concepts such as 5G access domain, next generation fixed, programmable transport and 5G era horizontal layers in conjunction with cloud, software defined and cognitive networks transformation and the associated management and orchestration mechanisms. A convergent end-to-end architecture for the 5G era is decomposed in a systematic manner, key attributes and characteristics of the associated architectural domains are described.