Performance analysis of mobile hotspots with heterogeneous wireless links

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 3717-3727

  Pack, Sangheon ^a,b   Rutagemwa, Humphrey ^a,c   Mark, Jon W ^a,c   Cai, Lin ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Integrated WWAN WLAN link; Markov model; Mobile hotspot; Performance analysis

Indexed keywords

MARKOV MODELS; MOBILE HOTSPOTS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERNET; PACKET LOSS; PROBABILITY; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

EID: 35448952505     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2007.060069     Document Type: Article

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