olemus
(1) võrgu (1) konfiguratsiooni ja reeglite modelleerimine
sõltumatult füüsilisest teostusest
= modeling network configuration and rules independent of physical implementation
http://etherealmind.com/basics-explain-concepts-of-network-abstraction-in-simple-terms/

https://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/why-we-need-network-abstraction/515690215

https://www.es.net/assets/pubs_presos/20130114-monga-networkabstractions.pdf

https://www.definethecloud.net/network-abstraction-and-virtualization-where-to-start/

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8453

(2) suure võrgu (2) teisendamine väiksemaks
= converting a large network into a smaller one
https://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/htoivone/pubs/Zhou_WEAIN-PKDD2009.pdf

https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14925052.pdf