Handover and Channel Assignment in Mobile Cellular Networks: Quick and timely handover has a crucial effect on how users perceive quality of service, however, handover strategies should not be too complicated

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 1991, Pages 42-46

  Tekinay, Sirin ^a   Jabbari, Bijan ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); PROBABILITY;

CHANNEL ALLOCATION STRATEGIES; FLEXIBLE CHANNEL ASSIGNMENT; HANDOVER STRATEGIES; HANDOVERS QUEUEING;

MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0026254745     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.109664     Document Type: Article

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