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Building Blocks for an Elastic Mobile Core

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Hannu FlinckAuthors Info & Claims

CoNEXT Student Workshop '14: Proceedings of the 2014 CoNEXT on Student Workshop

Pages 43 - 45

https://doi.org/10.1145/2680821.2680832

Published: 02 December 2014 Publication History

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The mobile core is currently served by gateways having a convoluted control plane and data plane. We abstract and modularize the key functions of these gateways, and separate the control and data plane in nwEPC, an open source implementation of the mobile access network gateways. We use our custom load balancer for the control plane to demonstrate the elasticity offered by our implementation.

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CoNEXT Student Workshop '14: Proceedings of the 2014 CoNEXT on Student Workshop

December 2014

58 pages

ISBN:9781450332828

DOI:10.1145/2680821

Program Chairs:
George Iosifidis
University of Thessaly, and CERTH, Greece
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Eric Keller
University of Colorado, USA
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Sun Yi
Chinese Academy of Science, China

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