Reliability and security modeling in upgrading wireless backbone networks

Bell Labs Technical Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 39-53

  Chan, Chun K ^a   Pant, Himanshu ^a,b  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK RELIABILITY; PACKET TANDEM SWITCH; SERVICE PROVIDER;

RELIABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33744831576     PISSN: 10897089     EISSN: 15387305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bltj.10085     Document Type: Article

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