An efficient fault-tolerant location management protocol for personal communication networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2359-2369

  Ratnam, Karunaharan ^a,b   Rangarajan, Sampath ^a,b   Dahbura, Anton T ^a,b  

^a VERIZON   (United States)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE MEMORY; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; CHANNEL CAPACITY; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); COST EFFECTIVENESS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

FAULT TOLERANT LOCATION MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL; LOCATION REGISTERS; MOBILE HOSTS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0034313101     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.901904     Document Type: Article

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