Location tracking with distributed HLR's and pointer forwarding

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-64

  Lin, Yi Bing ^a   Tsai, Wen Nung ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Deregistration; Distributed database mobility management; Home location register; Personal communications services; Registration; Visitor location register

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344756159     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/25.661032     Document Type: Article

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