Estimating cellular network performance during hurricanes

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 337-344

  Booker, Graham ^a   Torres, Jacob ^b   Guikema, Seth ^b   Sprintson, Alex ^a   Brumbelow, Kelly ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

^b The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular communications; Reliability assessment; Simulation; Structural reliability

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE WEATHER; CELLULAR COMMUNICATION; CELLULAR NETWORK; CELLULAR SYSTEM; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE; HURRICANE WIND FIELDS; MESH TOPOLOGIES; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY APPROACH; NETWORK ELEMENT; RELIABILITY ASSESSMENTS; SIMULATION TOOL; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY; STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SYSTEM RELIABILITY; TOPOLOGICAL CHANGES;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HURRICANES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; REDUNDANCY; TOPOLOGY;

RELIABILITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 75949085231     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2009.11.003     Document Type: Article

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