Reliability and survivability analysis for UMTS networks: An analytical approach

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 132-142

  Dharmaraja, S ^a   Jindal, Vaneeta ^a   Varshney, Upkar ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical modeling; Markov chain; Reliability; Reliability block diagram; Survivability; UMTS networks

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL MODELING; MARKOV CHAIN; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAM; SURVIVABILITY; UMTS NETWORKS;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

QUALITY ASSURANCE;

EID: 65449164173     PISSN: 19324537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2009.031101     Document Type: Article

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