Failure Recovery of HLR Mobility Databases and Parameter Optimization for PCS Networks

Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 431-450

  Fang, Yugang ^a   Chlamtac, Imrich ^b   Fei, Hong Bing ^b  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

Author keywords

Failure recovery; HLR; Location update; Mobility database; Mobility management; PCS

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347068884     PISSN: 07437315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.1999.1615     Document Type: Article

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