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UPF

A core network element of the 5G core network user plane, responsible for packet forwarding, PDR/FAR/QER rule matching, tunnel encapsulation, QoS enforcement and traffic statistics. A programmable UPF allows custom processing logic to be inserted into the data plane.

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Oct 14

In the 5G core network architecture, the control plane is responsible for session management, policy, and mobility, while the user plane is responsible for actual packet forwarding; the UPF is the core network element of the user plane, undertaking rule matching such as PDR/FAR/QER, tunnel encapsulation, QoS enforcement, and traffic statistics.

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Oct 14

A programmable UPF allows custom processing logic to be inserted into the data plane (such as based on P4 or eBPF), which is the landing point for IoD's implementation of in-band tensor context.

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Oct 14

The research team evaluated IoD on a testbed based on a programmable user plane function (UPF), using a partitionable visual AI workload.

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Oct 14

There is still a distance from the testbed to live networks, and the deployment density of programmable UPFs, the standardization progress of cross-vendor APIs, and the overhead of inference context under real congestion scenarios are all questions IoD needs to continue answering.

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