Software-defined networking-based resource management: data offloading with load balancing in 5G HetNet

Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Volumn 2015, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Duan, Xiaoyu ^a   Akhtar, Auon Muhammad ^a   Wang, Xianbin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

HetNet; Load balancing; Quality of service; Resource management; Software defined networking; Wi Fi data offloading

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA HANDLING; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE SECURITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; WI-FI; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

FUTURE CELLULAR NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; HETNET; LOAD BALANCING ALGORITHMS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84933519613     PISSN: 16871472     EISSN: 16871499     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13638-015-0405-3     Document Type: Article

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