Follow-me cloud: When cloud services follow mobile users

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 369-382

  Taleb, Tarik ^a   Ksentini, Adlen ^b   Frangoudis, Pantelis A ^c  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b EURECOM   (France)

^c CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

3GPP LTE; cellular mobile networks; Cloud computing; Markov decision process; network function virtualization; software defined networking

Indexed keywords

CLOUD COMPUTING; COST EFFECTIVENESS; LOCATION BASED SERVICES; MARKOV PROCESSES; NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; SOFTWARE DEFINED NETWORKING; WEB SERVICES; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

3GPP LTE; CELLULAR MOBILE NETWORKS; CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURES; LOCATOR/IDENTIFIER SEPARATIONS; MARKOV DECISION PROCESSES; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SERVICE CONTINUITY; SERVICE DELIVERY STRATEGIES;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 85067090046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21687161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2016.2525987     Document Type: Article

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