An architecture to offer cloud-based radio access network as a service

EuCNC 2014 - European Conference on Networks and Communications

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ferreira, Lucio Studer ^a   Pichon, Dominique ^b   Hatefi, Atoosa ^b   Gomes, Andre ^c   Dimitrova, Desislava ^d   Braun, Torsten ^d   Karagiannis, Georgios ^e   Karimzadeh, Morteza ^e   Branco, Monica ^a   Correia, Luis M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b Orange ^*  (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Architecture; Cloud; RAN; X as a Service

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; CLOUDS; HARDWARE;

CONTROL FUNCTIONS; FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; HARDWARE UTILIZATION; NOVEL ARCHITECTURE; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RAN; VIRTUAL NETWORK OPERATORS; X AS A SERVICE;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84906971545     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882627     Document Type: Conference Paper

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