Software defined networking enabled wireless network virtualization: Challenges and solutions

IEEE Network

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 42-49

  Zhang, Ning ^a   Yang, Peng ^b   Zhang, Shan ^a   Chen, Dajiang ^c   Zhuang, Weihua ^a   Liang, Ben ^d   Shen, Xuemin Sherman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; VIRTUALIZATION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

COST EFFECTIVE; DIFFERENT SERVICES; MASSIVE DATA; NETWORK SLICING; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; ON DEMANDS; OR-NETWORKS; RESOURCES ALLOCATION; SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORKINGS; VIRTUAL NETWORKS;

RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 85019880347     PISSN: 08908044     EISSN: 1558156X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MNET.2017.1600248     Document Type: Article

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