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Everything about Network virtualization
Combining resources into a single entity
In computing, network virtualization is the process of combining hardware and software network resources and network functionality into a single, software-based administrative entity, a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Network virtualizationA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Securing Virtual Architecture of Smartphones based on Network Function VirtualizationInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Tom Clancy's Net ForceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: A survey of network virtualizationCited 937 times
- Go sideways: Infrastructure as a serviceA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Virtual firewallA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
No dictionary entry for this exact phrase.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
A survey of network virtualization
Data Center Network Virtualization: A Survey
Holistic Network Virtualization and Pervasive Network Intelligence for 6G
Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey
SVNE: Survivable Virtual Network Embedding Algorithms for Network Virtualization
Network function virtualization in 5G
LTE mobile network virtualization
Stochastic Game for Wireless Network Virtualization
🆕 Influential since 2022
Securing Virtual Architecture of Smartphones based on Network Function Virtualization
Network Function Virtualization in Elastic Optical Networks
Resource Fragmentation-Aware Embedding in Dynamic Network Virtualization Environments
SFCSim: a network function virtualization resource allocation simulation platform
Protection of Energy Network Infrastructures Applying a Dynamic Topology Virtualization
📚 Books worth reading
Tom Clancy's Net ForceTom Clancy, Steve R. Pieczenik · 1998
Augmented Reality and Virtual RealityTimothy Jung, M. Claudia tom Dieck · 2017
Coming of Age in Second LifeTom Boellstorff · 2008
The global virtual universityJohn Tiffin · 2003
Naked in CyberspaceCarole A. Lane, Owen Davies · 1995
Law of Virtual Worlds and Internet Social NetworksAndrew Sparrow · 2016
Data Communications Networking (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking)Behrouz A. Forouzan · 2006
Virtual LANsMarina Smith · 1997
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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