A survey of handover algorithms in DVB-H

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 16-29

  Yang, Xiaodong ^a   Väre, Jani ^b   Owens, Thomas J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DIGITAL TELEVISION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RECEPTION QUALITY; SURVEYS;

END-TO-END SYSTEMS; HANDOVER ALGORITHMS; MOBILE HANDHELD TERMINAL; MOBILE SCENARIOS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; POWER EFFICIENCY; RECENT RESEARCHES; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

DIGITAL VIDEO BROADCASTING (DVB);

EID: 52349123029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2006.283819     Document Type: Review

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