A seamless service continuity scheme for enhanced network performance in UMTS/WLAN networks

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Lampropoulos, George ^a   Kaloxylos, Alexandras ^b   Passas, Nikos ^a   Merakos, Lazaros ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER NETWORKS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MANAGEMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MULTITASKING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; QUALITY MANAGEMENT; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

ACCESS NETWORK (ANET); CELLULAR NETWORKS; CONNECTIONS (STRUCTURAL); DETAILED SIMULATION; HANDOVER (MOBILE COMPUTING); INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM; MOBILE RADIO COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE TERMINAL (MT); NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; NETWORK PERFORMANCES; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (RM); SERVICE CONTINUITY; USER PREFERENCES; WIRELESS ACCESS; WIRELESS LANS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 44949084403     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC.2006.254041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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