Accounting

Yield (engineering)

Yield management

Business

Aerospace engineering

Computer network

Musical

World Wide Web

Engineering

Visual arts

Cellular network

Orchestration

Metallurgy

Materials science

Revenue

Slicing

Revenue management

Computer science

Automotive industry

End-to-end principle

Telecommunications

End user

Network slicing allows mobile operators to offer, via proper abstractions, mobile infrastructure (radio, networking, computing) to vertical sectors traditionally alien to the telco industry (e.g., automotive, health, construction). Owning to similar business nature, in this paper we adopt yield management models successful in other sectors (e.g. airlines, hotels, etc.) and so we explore the concept of slice overbooking to maximize the revenue of mobile operators.

Overbooking network slices through yield-driven end-to-end orchestration