Teletraffic engineering for mobile personal communications in ITU-T work: The need to match practice and theory

IEEE Personal Communications

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 38-58

  Grillo, Davide ^{a,e,f,g,h,i,j}   Skoog, Ronald A ^b,k,l,m,n,o   Chia, Stanley ^{c,o,p,q,r,s,t,u,v}   Leung, Kin K ^d,n,w,x,y  

^a FONDAZIONE UGO BORDONI   (Italy)

^b TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Vodafone   (United States)

^d AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^f SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^g TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ ITC Sem on Personal Communications   (Italy)

^j ITU T   (Switzerland)

^k OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁿ LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^o Sigma Xi ^*  (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^r MARTLESHAM HEATH   (United Kingdom)

^s SmarTone Mobile Communications Ltd   (Hong Kong)

^t Intl Technology Development Group   (United Kingdom)

^u AirTouch's Strat Technol Dept

^v Radio Science and Technology Group

^w CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^x UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELETRAFFIC ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032308897     PISSN: 10709916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/98.736476     Document Type: Article

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