Channel allocation for UMTS multimedia broadcasting and multicasting

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4375-4383

  Lai, Yen Cheng ^a   Lin, Phone ^a   Fang, Yuguang ^b   Chen, Wei Hao ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^c Antenna and Wireless System Integration   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Channel allocation; Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS); Performance modeling; Soft handoff; Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS)

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; LOUDSPEAKERS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; RADIO BROADCASTING; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

CHANNEL ALLOCATION; MULTIMEDIA BROADCAST MULTICAST SERVICE (MBMS); PERFORMANCE MODELING; SOFT HANDOFF; UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM (UMTS);

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 57149142509     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-WC.2008.070653     Document Type: Article

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