Effective service delivery and group management in integrated terrestrial-HAP systems for multicast communications

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1173-1185

  Araniti, Giuseppe ^a   Iera, Antonio ^a   Molinaro, Antonella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular systems (3G, 4G); High altitude platforms; Multicast services; Next generation services; Radio resource management

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR SYSTEM; HIGH ALTITUDE PLATFORM; MULTICAST SERVICES; NEXT GENERATION SERVICES; RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

CELLULAR ARRAYS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; NATURAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RURAL AREAS; SPACE PLATFORMS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 77956549347     PISSN: 15308669     EISSN: 15308677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wcm.676     Document Type: Article

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