Analysis of the effects of outages on the quality of service of GPRS network systems

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 235-244

  Tataranni, F ^a   Porcarelli, S ^a   Di Giandomenico, F ^b   Bondavalli, A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL CONDITIONS;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET; PACKET SWITCHING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 0035789776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2001.941409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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