WLAN-UMTS Integration: Architecture, Seamless Handoff, and Simulation Analysis

Simulation

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 413-424

  Zarai, Faouzi ^a   Boudriga, Noureddine ^a   Obaidat, Mohammad S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous wireless network; modeling and simulation; performance evaluation; resources reservation; seamless handoff; security; UMTS; WLAN

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM FIREWALLS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FOURTH GENERATION NETWORKS; RESOURCES RESERVATION; SEAMLESS SERVICES; UNIVERSAL MOBILE STATIONS (UMS);

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 33750083314     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549706070275     Document Type: Article

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