Optical service chaining for network function virtualization

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 152-158

  Xia, Ming ^a   Shirazipour, Meral ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a   Green, Howard ^a   Takacs, Attila ^a  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EMERGING APPLICATIONS; NETWORK FUNCTIONS; OPTICAL SERVICES; OPTICAL STEERING; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; TRAFFIC LEVELS; VIRTUALIZATIONS; WAVELENGTH-SWITCHING;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84927782234     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2015.7081089     Document Type: Article

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