Experimental evaluation of fog computing techniques to reduce latency in LTE networks

Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2018, Pages

  García Pérez, César Augusto ^a   Merino, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL; FOG; FUNCTION EVALUATION; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTING TECHNIQUES; EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE; LOCAL SERVERS; NEW COMPONENTS; SERVICE ORIENTED; TUNNELING PROTOCOLS;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 85020460503     PISSN: 21615748     EISSN: 21613915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ett.3201     Document Type: Article

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