Performance of received power and traffic-driven handover algorithms in urban cellular networks

IEEE Wireless Communications

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 60-71

  Verdone, Roberto ^a   Zanella, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; MULTIPATH PROPAGATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

CELL SECTORIZATION; CHANNEL ALLOCATION; HANDOVER ALGORITHM; TRAFFIC LOAD; URBAN CELLULAR NETWORK;

TIME DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

EID: 0036000403     PISSN: 15361284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.2002.986461     Document Type: Article

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