Elastic network functions: Opportunities and challenges

IEEE Network

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 15-21

  Szabó, Róbert ^a   Kind, Mario ^b   Westphal, Fritz Joachim ^b   Woesner, Hagen ^c   Jocha, Dávid ^a   Császar, András ^a  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^c BISDN GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION;

ELASTIC NETWORKS; ELASTIC SERVICES; KEY TECHNOLOGIES; NETWORK FUNCTIONS; NETWORK RESOURCE; NETWORK SERVICES; NEW BUSINESS MODELS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN);

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84930960350     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2015.7113220     Document Type: Article

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