Performance Analysis of SS7 Congestion Controls Under Sustained Overload

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 405-414

  Manfield, David R ^a   Millsteed, Gregory K ^b   Zukerman, Moshe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b TELSTRA RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ELECTRIC NETWORK PARAMETERS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TELEPHONE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS; TRANSIENTS;

COMMON CHANNEL SIGNALING; SIGNALING POINTS; SIGNALING TRANSFER POINTS; SS7 CONGESTION CONTROLS; SUSTAINED OVERLOAD;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 0028419323     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.285301     Document Type: Article

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