Towards a cost optimal design for a 5G mobile core network based on SDN and NFV

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1061-1075

  Basta, Arsany ^a   Blenk, Andreas ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus ^b   Morper, Hans Jochen ^b   Hoffmann, Marco ^b   Kellerer, Wolfgang ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

5G; Mobile core network; Network functions virtualization; Optimization; Software defined networking

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COST REDUCTION; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; VIRTUAL REALITY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; DATA CENTER LOCATIONS; MOBILE CORE NETWORK; MULTI-OBJECTIVE MODELING; NETWORK FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; OPTIMIZATION SOLUTION; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING (SDN);

NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION;

EID: 85040965765     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2017.2732505     Document Type: Article

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