Vertical handoffs as a radio resource management tool

Computer Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 950-961

  Taha, Abd Elhamid M ^a   Hassanein, Hossam S ^a   Mouftah, Hussein T ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous wireless networks; QoS; Radio resource management (RRM); Vertical handoffs; Wireless overlay networks

Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO COMMUNICATION; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; USER INTERFACES;

HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (RRM); VERTICAL HANDOFFS; WIRELESS OVERLAY NETWORKS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 40249085737     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2007.12.027     Document Type: Article

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