Performance of IP-based services over GPRS

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 727-741

  Chitre, Vikrant A ^a   Daigle, John N ^b  

^a NORTEL NETWORKS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular communications; Communication networks; Contention protocols; Performance analysis; Queuing systems; Wireless communications

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

CONTENTION PROTOCOLS;

INTERNET;

EID: 0038381590     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2003.1204829     Document Type: Article

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