A roadmap for traffic engineering in software defined networks

Computer Networks

Volumn 71, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-30

  Akyildiz, Ian F ^a   Lee, Ahyoung ^a   Wang, Pu ^b   Luo, Min ^c   Chou, Wu ^c  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD   (China)

Author keywords

OpenFlow; Software defined networking; Traffic analysis; Traffic engineering; Traffic management

Indexed keywords

NETWORK MANAGEMENT; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

OPENFLOW; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84904582454     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2014.06.002     Document Type: Article

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