Introducing Mobile Edge Computing Capabilities through Distributed 5G Cloud Enabled Small Cells

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 564-574

  Fajardo, Jose Oscar ^a   Liberal, Fidel ^a   Giannoulakis, Ioannis ^b   Kafetzakis, Emmanouil ^c   Pii, Vincenzo ^d   Trajkovska, Irena ^d   Bohnert, Thomas Michael ^d   Goratti, Leonardo ^e   Riggio, Roberto ^e   Lloreda, Javier Garcia ^f   Khodashenas, Pouria Sayyad ^g   Paolino, Michele ^h   Bliznakov, Pavel ^h   Perez Romero, Jordi ⁱ   Meani, Claudio ^j   Chochliouros, Ioannis ^k   Belesioti, Maria ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY   (Greece)

^c ORION Innovations Private Company   (Greece)

^d ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^e CREATE NET   (Italy)

^f ATOS   (Spain)

^g I2CAT FOUNDATION   (Spain)

^h Virtual Open Systems   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^j Italtel SpA   (Italy)

^k Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (OTE)   (Greece)

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Author keywords

5G; Centralised mobile networks; Light data Centre; Mobile edge computing; Small cells

Indexed keywords

CELLS; DIGITAL STORAGE; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BASE-BAND PROCESSING; BROADBAND MOBILE NETWORKS; CENTRALISED; DATA CENTRES; EDGE COMPUTING; PROPOSED ARCHITECTURES; SMALL CELLS; STRINGENT REQUIREMENT;

CYTOLOGY;

EID: 84976411558     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: 15728153     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-016-0752-2     Document Type: Article

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