Slicing Scheduling for Supporting Critical Traffic in Beyond 5G

One of the most challenging services fifth-generation (5G) mobile network is designed to support, is the critical services in-need of very low latency, and/or high reliability. It is now clear that such critical services will also be at the core of beyond 5G (B5G) networks. While 5G radio design accommodates such supports by introducing more flexibility in timing, how efficiently those services could be scheduled over a shared network with other broadband services remains as a challenge. In this paper, we use network slicing as an enabler for network sharing and propose an optimization framework to schedule resources to critical services via puncturing technique with minimal impact on the regular broadband services. We then thoroughly examine the performance of the framework in terms of throughput and reliability through simulation.