Soft load balancing over heterogeneous wireless networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2632-2638

  Son, Hyukmin ^a   Lee, Sanghoon ^a   Kim, Soo Chang ^b   Shin, Yeon Seung ^b  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Load sharing; Load balancing ratio (LBR); Loading factor; Outage probability; Quality of service (QoS); Soft load balancing

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TERMINOLOGY;

ACCESS NETWORK (ANET); CHANNEL TRANSMISSION; HANDOVER TECHNIQUES; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS; HOT SPOTTING; INTER-WORKING; INTERNET PROTOCOL (UP); LOAD BALANCING; MULTI-CELL ENVIRONMENTS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORK (NGN); OUTAGE PROBABILITY; OVER CURRENTS; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SUBFLOWS; USER TRAFFICS;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 48749124294     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2007.912324     Document Type: Article

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