A Survey on the Contributions of Software-Defined Networking to Traffic Engineering

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 918-953

  Mendiola, Alaitz ^a   Astorga, Jasone ^a   Jacob, Eduardo ^a   Higuero, Marivi ^a  

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

Author keywords

flow granularity; network resource optimisation; Software defined networking; traffic engineering

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INTERFACE STATES; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; RESERVATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; STANDARDS; SURVEYS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

CONGESTION MINIMIZATION; FLOW GRANULARITY; MANAGEMENT INTERFACES; NETWORK RESOURCE; PATH COMPUTATION ELEMENTS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; TRAFFIC SPLITTING;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 85020468664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2633579     Document Type: Review

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