Analysis of network latency in virtualized environments

Proceedings - IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages

  Oljira, Dejene Boru ^a   Brunstrom, Anna ^a   Taheri, Javid ^a   Grinnemo, Karl Johan ^a  

^a KARLSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; VIRTUAL REALITY;

CLOUD-COMPUTING; COMPUTING RESOURCE; COMPUTING SYSTEM; END TO END LATENCIES; NETWORK LATENCIES; PACKET DELAY; PERFORMANCE; VIRTUALIZATION LAYERS; VIRTUALIZATIONS; VIRTUALIZED ENVIRONMENT;

VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 85015371620     PISSN: 23340983     EISSN: 25766813     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2016.7841603     Document Type: Conference Paper

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