General Packet Radio Service (GPRS): Architecture, interfaces, and deployment

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 77-92

  Lin, Yi Bing ^a   Rao, Herman C H ^b   Chlamtac, Imrich ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b AT and T Research Labs   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Gateway GPRS support node; General packet radio service; GPRS tunneling protocol; GSM; Packet control unit; Serving GPRS support node

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002591362     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1530-8677(200101/03)1:1<77::AID-WCM7>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Review

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