International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol. 14, No. 4, August 2024, pp. 4721~4731 ISSN: 2088-8708, DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v14i4.pp4721-4731  4721 Journal homepage: http://ijece.iaescore.com Enhancing 5G network performance through effective resource management with network slicing Nagarajan Suganthi 1 , Enthrakandi Narasimhan Ganesh 2 , Elangovan Guruva Reddy 3 , Vijayaraman Balakumar 4 , Thangam Ilakkiya 5 , Mageshkumar Naarayanasamy Varadarajan 6 , Venkatachalam Ramesh Babu 7 1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Ramapuram Campus, Chennai, India 2 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, St. Peters Institute of Higher Education and Research (SPIHER), Chennai, India 3 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation, Vaddeswaram, India 4 Sub Divisional Engineer (Security), MPLS Network Operations Centre, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Bengaluru, India 5 Department of Management Studies, Sri Sai Ram Institute of Technology, Chennai, India 6 Lead Software Engineer, Capital One, Glen Allen, United States 7 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dr.MGR Educational and Research Institute, Chennai, India Article Info ABSTRACT Article history: Received Oct 2, 2023 Revised Mar 26, 2024 Accepted May 12, 2024 The immense growth of mobile networks leads to versatile applications and new demands. The improved concert, transferability, flexibility, and performance of innovative network services are applied in diversified fields. More unique networking concepts are incorporated into state-of-the-art mobile technologies to expand these dynamic features further. This paper presents a novel system architecture of slicing and pairing networks with intra-layer and inter-layer functionalities in 5th generation (5G) mobile networks. The radio access network layer slices and the core network layer slices are paired up using the network slicing pairing functionalities. The physical network elements of such network slices will be logically assigned entities called softwarization of the network. Such a novel system architecture called network sliced softwarization of 5G mobile networks (NSS-5G) has shown better performances in terms of end-to-end delay, total throughput, and resource utilization when compared to traditional mobile networks. Thus, effective resource management is achieved using NSS-5G. This study will pave the way for future softwarization of heterogeneous mobile applications. Keywords: 5G Mobile Network slicing Pairing networks Resource management Softwarization Virtualization This is an open access article under the CC BY-SA license. Corresponding Author: Nagarajan Suganthi Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology Ramapuram Campus, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Email: suganthn@srmist.edu.in 1. INTRODUCTION Mobile networks are in dynamic progress over some time to gratify the new-fangled demands for improved performance, transportability, springiness, and resource management of innovative network services. 5th generation (5G) mobile networks espouse state-of-the-art networking architecture to meet the ongoing needs of modern life [1]. 5G mobile networks afford enormous scheme functionalities with high- speed data transfer, less end-to-end delay, enhanced dependability, and state-of-the-art experience in internet of things (IoT) applications [2]. The telecommunication regulatory authorities and the research fraternity are putting vast exertions into developing a novel model called the softwarization of 5G mobile networks. Multiple latest concepts, like software networks, network function virtualization, are integrated to meet