On the impact of soft vertical handoff on optimal voice admission control in PCF-based WLANs loosely coupled to 3G networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1356-1365

  Ali, Racha Ben ^a   Pierre, Samuel ^a  

^a ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blocking probability; Loosely coupled UMTS WLAN; Mobility model; Soft vertical handoff; Voice optimal CAC

Indexed keywords

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

3G NETWORKS; ADMISSION CONTROL ALGORITHMS; ADMISSION CONTROLS; ANALYTICAL MOBILITY MODELS; BLOCKING PERFORMANCE; DROPPING PROBABILITIES; HIGH VARIABILITIES; LOOSELY COUPLED UMTS/WLAN; MOBILE STATIONS; MOBILITY MODEL; NEW CALL-BLOCKING PROBABILITIES; POINT CO-ORDINATION FUNCTIONS; SOFT HANDOFFS; SOFT VERTICAL HANDOFF; VOICE CALLS; VOICE OPTIMAL CAC;

BLOCKING PROBABILITY;

EID: 62949237358     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2008.071354     Document Type: Article

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