Multi-service load sharing for resource management in the cellular/WLAN integrated network

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 725-735

  Song, Wei ^a   Zhuang, Weihua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Admission control; Cellular WLAN interworking; Load sharing; Quality of service; Resource management; Vertical handoff

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; OVERLAY NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC;

ADMISSION CONTROL; CELLULAR/WLAN INTERWORKING; LOAD SHARING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; VERTICAL HANDOFF;

WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

EID: 61349165619     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2009.070455     Document Type: Article

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