A discrete-time approach to analyze hard handoff performance in cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1721-1733

  Leu, Alexe E ^a   Mark, Brian L ^b  

^a Shared Spectrum Company   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular systems; Discrete time systems; Handoff algorithms; Level crossing problems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DISCRETE TIME CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RANDOM PROCESSES;

CELLULAR SYSTEMS; DISCRETE-TIME SYSTEMS; HANDOFF ALGORITHMS; LEVEL-CROSSING PROBLEMS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 7544227788     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2004.833480     Document Type: Article

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