A vertical handoff decision algorithm for heterogeneous wireless networks

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3201-3206

  Stevens Navarro, Enrique ^a   Wong, Vincent W S ^a   Lin, Yuxia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SIGNALING;

GREY RELATIONAL ANALYSIS; SIMPLE ADDITIVE WEIGHTING; TERMINAL SWITCHES; VERTICAL HANDOFF;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 36348995548     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2007.590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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