Intersystem soft handover for converged DVB-H and UMTS networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1887-1898

  Yang, Xiadong ^a,b   Owens, Thomas J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Hutchison 3G Austria GmbH   (Austria)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Compressed mode; Digital video broadcasting for handhelds (DVB H); Handover; Stochastic trees; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO COMMUNICATION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

COMPRESSED MODE; DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING; STOCHASTIC TREES; UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (UMTS);

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 44849100863     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.909278     Document Type: Article

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