Virtualization of radio access network by Virtual Machine and Docker: Practice and performance analysis

Proceedings of the IM 2017 - 2017 IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 680-685

  Gopalasingham, Aravinthan ^a   Herculea, Dalia Georgiana ^a   Chen, Chung Shue ^a   Roullet, Laurent ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

5G; Docker container; performance analysis; radio access network; SDN; Virtual Machine

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONTAINERS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK SECURITY; QUEUEING THEORY; RADIO; SOFTWARE RADIO; TESTBEDS; VIRTUAL MACHINE; VIRTUAL REALITY; VIRTUALIZATION;

G-NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; QUEUING MODELS; RADIO ACCESS NETWORKS; RAN ARCHITECTURE; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN); SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS;

NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 85029453240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.23919/INM.2017.7987358     Document Type: Conference Paper

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