How Can Edge Computing Benefit from Software-Defined Networking: A Survey, Use Cases, and Future Directions

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 2359-2391

  Baktir, Ahmet Cihat ^a   Ozgovde, Atay ^b   Ersoy, Cem ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b GALATASARAY UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

cloud computing; edge computing; Internet of Things; network management; network virtualization; service centric network; Software defined networking; wearable computing

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COMPLEX NETWORKS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; EDGE COMPUTING; INTERNET OF THINGS; MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; SERVERS; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; SURVEYS;

COMPLEXITY THEORY; MARKET RESEARCHES; NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION; PROPOSALS; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

FOG COMPUTING;

EID: 85021845931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2717482     Document Type: Review

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