A virtual SDN-enabled LTE EPC architecture: A case study for S-/P-gateways functions

SDN4FNS 2013 - 2013 Workshop on Software Defined Networks for Future Networks and Services

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Basta, Arsany ^a   Kellerer, Wolfgang ^a   Hoffmann, Marco ^b   Hoffmann, Klaus ^b   Schmidt, Ernst Dieter ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

DATA CLASSIFICATION; DATA-PLANE PROCESSING; MOBILE CORE NETWORK; MONOLITHIC ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK FUNCTIONS; OPENFLOW SWITCHES; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); TRANSPORT NETWORK ELEMENTS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893526851     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SDN4FNS.2013.6702532     Document Type: Conference Paper

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