Demonstration of Containerized vDU/vCU Migration in WDM Metro Optical Networks

We experiment on a containerized vDU/vCU migration for load balancing among processing pools over WDM metro networks. Two stateful migration strategies to reduce migration time are verified on a converged edge access network platform.

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