Cost-Efficient NFV-Enabled Mobile Edge-Cloud for Low Latency Mobile Applications

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 475-488

  Yang, Binxu ^a   Chai, Wei Koong ^b   Xu, Zichuan ^c   Katsaros, Konstantinos V ^d   Pavlou, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d INTRACOM TELECOM   (Greece)

Author keywords

approximation algorithm; dynamic resource allocation; low latency applications; Mobile edge cloud

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; CLOUD COMPUTING; COSTS; DYNAMICS; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS; LOCATION; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SERVERS;

DYNAMIC RESOURCE ALLOCATIONS; DYNAMIC SCHEDULING; EDGE CLOUDS; LOW LATENCY; MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85040554325     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2018.2790081     Document Type: Article

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