Spatial traffic estimation and characterization for mobile communication network design

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 804-811

  Tutschku, Kurt ^a,b,c   Tran Gia, Phuoc ^a,b,d,e,f,g  

^a IEEE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

^f Standard Elektrik Lorenz   (Germany)

^g IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clustering methods; Communication system performance; Facility locations; Land mobile radio cellular system; Network planning; Traffic estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

LAND MOBILE RADIO CELLULAR SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032095123     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.700914     Document Type: Article

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