SDN based Evolved Packet Core architecture for efficient user mobility support

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages

  Chourasia, Sakshi ^a   Sivalingam, Krishna M ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS); INTERNET PROTOCOLS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNALING;

MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL; MOBILITY-RELATED SIGNALING; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; PROXY MOBILE IPV6 (PMIPV6); SIGNALING PROCEDURE; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); TUNNELING PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84945261324     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NETSOFT.2015.7116148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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