Reliability analysis for various communication schemes in wireless CORBA

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 232-242

  Chen, Xinyu ^a   Lyu, Michael R ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

End to end expected instantaneous reliability; Handoff; Reliability importance; Wireless CORBA

Indexed keywords

MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); END-TO-END EXPECTED INSTANTANEOUS RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY IMPORTANCE; WIRELESS CORBA; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

RELIABILITY THEORY;

EID: 22444441178     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2005.847268     Document Type: Article

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