An improved location-based handover algorithm for GSM systems

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages 1371-1376

  Juang, Rong Terng ^a   Lin, Hsin Piao ^a   Lin, Ding Bing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Handover; Mobile location; Mobile velocity estimation; Shadow fading

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OUTAGES; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HANDOVER; HANDOVER DECISION MECHANISM; MOBILE LOCATION; MOBILE VELOCITY; MOBILE VELOCITY ESTIMATION; PING-PONG EFFECTS; SHADOW FADING; SIGNAL STRENGTH;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 24944482715     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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