A novel load balancing scheme for the tele-traffic hot spot problem in cellular networks

Wireless Networks

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 325-340

  Das, Sajal K ^a,b,c,d   Sen, Sanjoy K ^a   Jayaram, Rajeev ^a,e,f  

^a Center for Advanced Research and Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^c Center for Research in Parallel and Distributed Computing   (United States)

^d UNT   (United States)

^e ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^f IEEE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GRAPH THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

LOAD BALANCING SCHEMES; TELE-TRAFFIC HOT SPOT PROBLEMS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032093987     PISSN: 10220038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019120810299     Document Type: Article

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