A flexible network architecture for UMTS

IEEE Personal Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 8-15

  Fleming, Gary ^a,f,g   El Hoiydi, Amre ^b,h,i   De Vriendt, Johan ^c,j,k   Nikolaidis, Georgios ^d,l   Piolini, Flavio ^c,e,m   Maraki, Maria ^c,n,o  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

^b CSEM   (Switzerland)

^c Alcatel ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e CSELT   (Italy)

^f VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^h ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ EPFL   (Switzerland)

^j GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^k Research Center of Alcatel Bell NV

^l TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^m POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

ⁿ NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^o INTRACOM Software Design Center

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CONTROL; FLOWCHARTING; INTELLIGENT NETWORKS; RADIO EQUIPMENT; RADIO SYSTEMS; STANDARDIZATION;

RADIO INTERFACES;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032050949     PISSN: 10709916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/98.667940     Document Type: Article

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