A seamless context-aware architecture for fourth generation wireless networks

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1035-1049

  Hasswa, Ahmed ^a   Nasser, Nidal ^b   Hassanein, Hossam ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

4G Mobility management; Seamless communications; Vertical handoff

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTEXT SENSITIVE LANGUAGES; MOBILE COMPUTING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

4G MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; SEAMLESS COMMUNICATIONS; SEAMLESS CONNECTIVITY; VERTICAL HANDOFF;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 35648936464     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11277-007-9262-7     Document Type: Article

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