Optimal virtual network embedding: Node-link formulation

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 356-368

  Melo, Marcio ^a   Sargento, Susana ^b   Killat, Ulrich ^c   Timm Giel, Andreas ^c   Carapinha, Jorge ^a  

^a Portugal Telecom Inovacao SA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c HAMBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

embedding; heuristics; ILP model; mapping; NP hard; optimization; Virtual networks

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDING; HEURISTICS; ILP MODELING; NP-HARD; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

DYNAMICS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; MAPPING; OPTIMIZATION;

INDUCTIVE LOGIC PROGRAMMING (ILP);

EID: 84891015334     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2013.092813.130397     Document Type: Article

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