Dynamic hierarchical database architecture for location management in PCS networks

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 646-660

  Ho, Joseph S M ^a,b   Akyildiz, Ian F ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NORTEL NETWORKS   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Call delivery; Directory register; Home location register (HLR); Location registration; Visitor location register (VLR)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

HOME LOCATION REGISTER (HLR); MOBILE TERMINALS (MT); VISITOR LOCATION REGISTER (VLR);

PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031248347     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/90.649566     Document Type: Article

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