SDN and Virtualization Solutions for the Internet of Things: A Survey

IEEE Access

Volumn 4, Issue , 2016, Pages 5591-5606

  Bizanis, Nikos ^a   Kuipers, Fernando A ^a  

^a Delft University of Technology   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5G; Internet of things (IoT); network functions virtualization (NFV); network virtualization (NV); software defined networking (SDN); wireless sensor network (WSN)

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET OF THINGS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; SURVEYS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

CELLULAR CONTEXTS; HETEROGENEOUS CHARACTERISTIC; IMPLEMENTATION ASPECTS; INTERNET OF THING (IOT); INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT); NETWORK FUNCTIONS; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN);

NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 85018474460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21693536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2607786     Document Type: Review

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