TY - T1 - Open Source Platforms, Applications and Tools for Software-Defined Networking and 5G Research SN - / UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/136245 T3 - Technical Report A1 - Suomalainen, Lauri; Nikkhouy, Emad; Ding, Aaron Yi; Tarkoma, Sasu A2 - PB - University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science Y1 - 2014 LA - eng AB - Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is a novel solution to network configuration and management. Its openness and programmability features have greatly motivated the open source communities where numerous applications and tools are developed for various R&D purposes. For the strength of SDN, the upcoming 5th Generation mobile networks (5G) can also benefit from the modular and open design to innovate the network architecture and services. In this report, we present a survey of existing open source... VO - IS - SP - OP - KW - 113 Computer and information sciences N1 - PP - ER -