CloudMAC - An OpenFlow based architecture for 802.11 MAC layer processing in the cloud

2012 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 186-191

  Dely, Peter ^a   Vestin, Jonathan ^a   Kassler, Andreas ^a   Bayer, Nico ^b   Einsiedler, Hans ^b   Peylo, Christoph ^b  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cloud; MAC Layer; Software Defined Networking

Indexed keywords

HIGH SPEED WIRELESS; HIGH-LEVEL PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; MAC LAYER; MANAGEMENT PROTOCOLS; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; UNIVERSITY CAMPUS; WLAN ARCHITECTURES;

CLOUDS; PILES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

STANDARDS;

EID: 84875655041     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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