A new call admission control mechanism for multimedia traffic over next-generation wireless cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-112

  Chatziperis, Stylianos ^b   Koutsakis, Polychronis ^a,c   Paterakis, Michael ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Call admission control; Downlink wireless channel; H.263 video encoding; Traffic modeling; Videoconferencing; Web traffic

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; QUALITY OF SERVICE; USER INTERFACES; VIDEO CONFERENCING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DOWNLINK WIRELESS CHANNEL; TRAFFIC MODELING; WEB TRAFFIC;

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION);

EID: 36549007427     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.70706     Document Type: Article

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