On the capacitated controller placement problem in software defined networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1339-1342

  Yao, Guang ^a   Bi, Jun ^a   Li, Yuliang ^a   Guo, Luyi ^b  

^a TSINGHUA NATIONAL LABORATORY FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

controller; placement; SDN

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONTROLLERS; SCHEDULING;

CONTROLLER PLACEMENTS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DYNAMIC CONTROLLER; DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; PLACEMENT; REAL NETWORKS; SDN; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84906220826     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2014.2332341     Document Type: Article

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