Teletraffic performance of mobile radio networks with hierarchical cells and overflow

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1549-1557

  Fitzpatrick, Paul ^b,c,d,e   Lee, Cheng Siong ^{b,e,f,g,h,i,j,k}   Warfield, Bob ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c TELSTRA RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^d Building H   (Australia)

^e Telstra ^*

^f NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^h Ministry of Defence Government of Singapore   (Singapore)

ⁱ Engineering Department   (United Kingdom)

^j NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^k School of Electrical Engineering

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Author keywords

Hierarchical cell structures; Land mobile radio; Overflow systems; Personal communication networks

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL CELL STRUCTURES; OVERFLOW SYSTEMS;

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031258046     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.634793     Document Type: Article

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