Multicasting vs. unicasting in mobile communication systems

Proceedings of the fifth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Mobile Multimedia

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 104-108

  Aaltonen, Janne ^a   Karvo, Jouni ^b   Aalto, Samuli ^b  

^a Nokia Ventures Organisation   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blocking; Dimensioning; Mobile networks; Multicast

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTICASTING; PROBABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

MOBILE NETWORKS;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036986430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/570806.570808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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