Enabling delivery of mobile services over heterogeneous converged infrastructures

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 189-204

  Houssos, Nikos ^a   Gazis, Vangelis ^a   Alonistioti, Athanassia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3G; 4G; Adaptability; Business models; Converged networks; Mobile service provision; Reconfigurability

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; INTERNET; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE COMPUTING; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

3G; 4G; BUSINESS MODELS; MOBILE SERVICE PROVISION; RECONFIGURABILITY;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344711329     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:ISFI.0000037875.51842.2b     Document Type: Article

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