Title :
Specificity vs. flexibility: On the embedding cost of a virtual network
Author :
Ludwig, Arne ; Schmid, S. ; Feldmann, A.
Author_Institution :
Telekom Innovation Labs., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Abstract :
The virtualization trend in today´s Internet decouples services from the constraints of the underlying physical infrastructure. This decoupling facilitates more flexible and efficient resource allocations: the service can be realized at any place in the substrate network which fulfills the service specification requirements.
Keywords :
Internet; costing; Internet decouples services; embedding cost; flexibility; specificity; virtual network; virtualization trend; Computer architecture; Context; Internet; Resource management; Substrates; Topology; Virtualization;
Conference_Titel :
Teletraffic Congress (ITC), 2013 25th International
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
DOI :
10.1109/ITC.2013.6662940
