Mobility-aware QoS assurance in software-defined radio access networks: An analytical study

1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Software-Defined Infrastructures for Networks, Clouds, IoT and Services, NETSOFT 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Vassilakis, Vassilios G ^a   Moscholios, Ioannis D ^b   Bontozoglou, Andreas ^c   Logothetis, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

handoff; quality of service; Radio access network; radio resource management; software defined networking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; SOFTWARE RADIO; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGS; HANDOFF; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK (HETNETS); INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); SPACE EFFICIENT ALGORITHMS;

RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS;

EID: 84945243477     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.7116192     Document Type: Conference Paper

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