Towards Coreless Wireless Mobile Networks

Combining two recent trends in wireless mobile systems, the small cells and the mobile edge computing, in this paper, we first identify new technical requirements for the implementation of the future generation of the mobile systems and then present architecture, modules and protocols complementing the current 3GPP Release 15 Reference Model to enable self-organized, wireless network of the future, in principle able to operate without any topological core network and seamlessly supporting hybrid mode operations.