Stochastic Control of Handoffs in Cellular Networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1348-1362

  Rezaiifar, Ramin ^a   Makowski, Armand M ^a   Kumar, Srikanta P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FADING (RADIO); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; RANDOM PROCESSES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CALL QUALITY; HANDOFF PROBLEM; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTHS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029378036     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.414652     Document Type: Article

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