Optimal vertical handover control policies for cooperative wireless networks

Journal of Communications and Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 442-450

  Papadaki, Katerina ^a   Friderikos, Vasilis ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch processing; Heterogeneous radio access technologies (RATs); Linear integer programming; Load balancing; Vertical handover (VHO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846278377     PISSN: 12292370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JCN.2006.6182792     Document Type: Article

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