Network virtualization: Technologies, perspectives, and frontiers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 523-537

  Wang, Anjing ^a   Iyer, Mohan ^b   Dutta, Rudra ^c   Rouskas, George N ^c   Baldine, Ilia ^d  

^a Oracle Corporation ^*

^b ORACLE CORPORATION   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Network architecture; network virtualization

Indexed keywords

VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; SPECTRA'S; VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84872169450     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2012.2213796     Document Type: Review

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