SoftAir: A software defined networking architecture for 5G wireless systems

Computer Networks

Volumn 85, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-18

  Akyildiz, Ian F ^a   Wang, Pu ^b   Lin, Shih Chun ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5G wireless system; Network function cloudification; Network virtualization; Software defined networking; Software defined traffic engineering; Wireless software defined networks

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR ARRAYS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE SECURITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; VIRTUAL REALITY;

NETWORK FUNCTIONS; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; WIRELESS SYSTEMS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84937972066     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2015.05.007     Document Type: Article

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