Wireless Back-haul: A software defined network enabled wireless Back-haul network architecture for future 5G networks

IET Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 287-295

  Niephaus, Christian ^a   Aliu, Osianoh Glenn ^b   Kretschmer, Mathias ^b   Hadzic, Senka ^b   Ghinea, Gheorghita ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b FRAUNHOFER FOKUS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

BACK HAUL; CORE NETWORKS; EVALUATION RESULTS; G-NETWORKS; MOST LIKELY; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKS; WIRELESS BACK-HAUL NETWORKS; WIRELESS BACKHAUL;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84946572481     PISSN: 20474954     EISSN: 20474962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/iet-net.2015.0009     Document Type: Article

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