The evolution of cellular backhaul technologies: Current issues and future trends

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 97-113

  Tipmongkolsilp, Orawan ^a   Zaghloul, Said ^a   Jukan, Admela ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Backhaul networks; circuit switching; GSM; Mobile networks; packet switching; time synchronization

Indexed keywords

BACKHAUL NETWORKS; CIRCUIT SWITCHING; GSM; MOBILE NETWORKS; TIME SYNCHRONIZATION;

GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; PACKET NETWORKS; PACKET SWITCHING; RESEARCH; SWITCHING; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; SYNCHRONIZATION; TECHNOLOGY; WI-FI; WIMAX;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 79951576990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.040610.00039     Document Type: Article

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