The magic WAND - Functional overview

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 953-972

  Mikkonen, Jouni ^a   Aldis, James ^b,e,f,g,h   Awater, Geert ^c,i,o   Lunn, Andrew ^d,j   Hutchison, David ^d,j,k,l,m,n  

^a NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Ascom Systec AG   (Switzerland)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h Technol Department of Ascom Systec   (Switzerland)

ⁱ DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^j LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^k HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United Kingdom)

^l EPFL   (Switzerland)

^m MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Program Committee

^o IEEE

more..

Author keywords

Asynchronous transfer mode; Functional model; Mobile multimedia communication; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE RADIO SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

MULTIMEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; SPECIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE (SDL); WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS;

ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE;

EID: 0032136290     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.709455     Document Type: Review

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