Performance analysis of a mobile communication network: The tandem case

Computer Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 208-221

  Alfa, Attahiru Sule ^a   Liu, Bin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS   (China)

Author keywords

Call loss probabilities; Corridor movements; Fixed channel allocations; Mobile communication networks; Performance; Tandem network

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PERFORMANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRANSCEIVERS;

CALL LOSS PROBABILITIES; CORRIDOR MOVEMENTS; FIXED CHANNEL ALLOCATIONS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TANDEM NETWORK;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0742268361     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(03)00216-0     Document Type: Article

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