Performance evaluation of soft handover in a realistic UMTS network

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1979-1983

  Forkel, Ingo ^a   Schinnenburg, Marc ^a   Wouters, Bianca ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Vodafone NL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO INTERFERENCE; RADIO LINKS; RADIO TRANSMISSION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

SOFT HANDOVER;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0041467724     PISSN: 07400551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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