Programming Abstractions for Software-Defined Wireless Networks

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 146-162

  Riggio, Roberto ^a   Marina, Mahesh K ^b   Schulz Zander, Julius ^c   Kuklinski, Slawomir ^d   Rasheed, Tinku ^a  

^a CREATE NET   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d Orange Polska ^*  (Poland)

Author keywords

Network Management; Programming abstractions; software defined wireless networks; WLANs

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROLLERS; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; PACKET NETWORKS; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE RADIO; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; WIRELESS NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

INDUSTRIAL COMMUNITIES; NETWORK RE-CONFIGURATION; PROGRAMMING ABSTRACTIONS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; WLANS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

EID: 84933506540     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2015.2417772     Document Type: Article

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