Handoff prioritization and decision schemes in wireless cellular networks: A survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 57-77

  Sgora, Aggeliki ^a   Vergados, Dimitrios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cellular Networks; Handoff; Horizontal; Prioritization Schemes; Resource Allocation; Vertical

Indexed keywords

BASIC ELEMENTS; CELLULAR NETWORK; CHANNEL RESERVATIONS; DECISION ALGORITHMS; EXECUTION PHASE; FORCED TERMINATION; HANDOFF; HANDOFF FAILURE; HANDOFF PRIORITIZATION; HANDOFF PROCEDURES; HORIZONTAL HANDOFF; HYBRID SCHEME; KEY ELEMENTS; PRIORITIZATION; VERTICAL HANDOFF; WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORKS;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; PLANNING; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SURVEYS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 72949089721     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2009.090405     Document Type: Article

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