What is traffic steering?

The Admission Control mechanism introduces two solutions, onebased on Reinforcement Learning (called SARA) and the otherbased on Deep Reinforcement Learning (named DSARA), tolearn the admission policy that optimizes the profit of NetworkSlice Providers.

In order to ensure seamless connectivity between these heterogeneous networks, 3GPP has defined in the 5G Release 16 a function called ATSSS that manages 5G & Wi-Fi convergence. ATSSS stands for Access Traffic Steering, Switching & Splitting . … Samsung, LG and Huawei also use it in some countries to combine Wi-Fi and 4G.

ARM’s traffic steering feature encourages clients that support both Wi-Fi and 3G/4G cellular connections to move from a Wi-Fi connection to a cellular connection when the device moves out of a Wi-Fi coverage area, or when the Wi-Fi connection supports lower data rates than the cellular connection.

5G is designed to support a 100x increase in traffic capacity and network efficiency . 5G has lower latency than 4G. 5G has significantly lower latency to deliver more instantaneous, real-time access: a 10x decrease in end-to-end latency down to 1ms.