@inproceedings{433e179901ae47b5bc42bfea1fc361e6,
title = "VRGW: Towards network function virtualization enabled by software defined networking",
abstract = "It has been a significant challenge for network carriers to deploy and provision a large number of Customer-Premises Equipment (CPE) devices located at subscribers' premises and connected to a carrier's network infrastructure. In this paper, we make a first systematic attempt to fundamentally re-shape the access networks into a software defined networking architecture by virtualizing the network functionality of residential gateways (vRGW). Our approach can be generalized to other CPE such as set-top boxes. Our analysis suggests that vRGW can achieve significant economic benefits ranging from up to 90\% reduction on the call center cost and up to 46\% reduction on the product return cost.",
author = "Haiyong Xie and Yanhua Li and Jin Wang and Diego Lopez and Tina Tsou and Yonggang Wen",
year = "2013",
doi = "10.1109/ICNP.2013.6733632",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781479912704",
series = "Proceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2013 21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2013",
note = "21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP 2013 ; Conference date: 07-10-2013 Through 10-10-2013",
}