Efficiency study of the information flow mechanism enabling interworking of heterogeneous wireless systems

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1746-1753

  Skianis, C ^a,b   Kormentzas, G ^a,b   Kontovasilis, K ^a   Lisa, G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^c Motorola Electronics SpA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous wireless networks; Information flow; Signalling protocol; Simulation; Systems beyond 3G

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SIGNALING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES; KEY BUILDING BLOCK; RADIO NETWORK;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 34547796474     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.10.020     Document Type: Article

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