Credit allocation for UMTS prepaid service

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 306-316

  Lin, Phone ^a   Lin, Yi Bing ^b   Gan, Chai Hien ^b   Jeng, Jeu Yih ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNGHWA TELECOM CO LTD   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Credit allocation; Credit reclaim; Prepaid services; Universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS)

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELEPHONE ACCOUNTING SYSTEMS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CREDIT ALLOCATION; CREDIT RECLAIM; PREPAID SERVICES;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 32144456380     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2005.858190     Document Type: Article

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