Moving the mobile evolved packet core to the cloud

International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 784-791

  Kempf, James ^a   Johansson, Bengt ^b   Pettersson, Sten ^b   Lüning, Harald ^b   Nilsson, Tord ^b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Ericsson PDU/PC   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Evolved Packet Core; GTP; OpenFlow; Software Defined Networking

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION NETWORK; CONTROL PLANES; DATA CENTERS; DATA PLANES; DE-CAPSULATION; EPC NETWORK; EVOLVED PACKET CORE; FLOW ROUTING; GTP; IP ROUTING; MOBILE BROADBAND; MOBILE SERVICE; NETWORK ELEMENT; OPENFLOW; PACKET DATA NETWORKS; RUNNING-IN; SOFTWARE CONTROL; TUNNEL ENDPOINT IDENTIFIERS; VIRTUAL MACHINES;

INTEROPERABILITY; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK ROUTING;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 84872067472     PISSN: 21619646     EISSN: 21619654     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WiMOB.2012.6379165     Document Type: Conference Paper

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