Advanced seamless vertical handoff architecture for WiMAX and WiFi heterogeneous networks with QoS guarantees

Computer Communications

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 281-293

  Chen, Yu Chang ^a   Hsia, Ja Hsing ^a   Liao, Yi Ju ^a  

^a SHU TE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

NS2; QoS; VHTC; WiFi; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; JITTER; METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PAPER; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RADIO BROADCASTING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS; HAND OFFS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORKS; MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK SIMULATORS; NEW APPROACHES; NS2; PACKET LOSS RATES; QOS; QOS GUARANTEES; QUALITY OF TRANSMISSIONS; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SIMULATION SYSTEMS; TRANSMISSION QUALITIES; VERTICAL HANDOFFS; VHTC; WIMAX;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 58149484924     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2008.10.014     Document Type: Article

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