A theoretical approach for service provider decision in heterogeneous wireless networks

2006 3rd IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2006

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1249-1252

  Nasser, Nidal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RANDOM PROCESSES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; USER INTERFACES;

MARKOV DECISION PROCESS (MDP); MOBILE USERS; STOCHASTIC CONTROL TECHNIQUE; WIRELESS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 33749045000     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCNC.2006.1593238     Document Type: Conference Paper

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