Robust rate control for heterogeneous network access in multihomed environments

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-51

  Alpcan, Tansu ^a   Singh, Jatinder Pal ^a   Başar, Tamer ^b  

^a DEUTSCHE TELEKOM LABORATORIES   (Germany)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

H optimal control; Heterogeneous networks; Multihoming; Rate control; Wireless communication

Indexed keywords

ACCESS NETWORKS; ANALYSIS AND DESIGNS; AVAILABLE BANDWIDTHS; CONTROL FRAMEWORKS; EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSES; GENERAL NATURES; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MINIMUM INFORMATIONS; MULTIHOMED; MULTIHOMING; MULTIPLE ACCESSES; NETWORK CHARACTERISTICS; NETWORKED SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; OPTIMAL RATES; RATE ALLOCATIONS; RATE CONTROL; RATE CONTROL SCHEMES; RATE CONTROLS; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

ACCESS CONTROL; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONTROL SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT TESTING; FLOW CONTROL; IMAGE CODING; INTERSECTIONS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; TIME VARYING NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CONTROL THEORY;

EID: 56949088017     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2008.85     Document Type: Article

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