An intelligent-agent approach for congestion management in 3G networks

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 619-632

  Chantaraskul, Soamsiri ^a   Cuthbert, Laurie ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Case based reasoning; Congestion management; Intelligent agent; Quality of service; Service level agreement; UMTS radio resource management

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND NETWORKS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); LEARNING SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

CONGESTION MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 43549106632     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2007.05.004     Document Type: Article

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