An empirical study on the capacity and performance of 3G networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 737-750

  Tan, Wee Lum ^a,b   Lam, Fung ^b   Lau, Wing Cheong ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

3G; Empirical measurements; HSDPA; Network capacity; Performance

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK CAPACITY; PERFORMANCE;

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

EID: 42649089467     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2007.70788     Document Type: Article

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