Adaptive bandwidth reservation and scheduling for efficient wireless telemedicine traffic transmission

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 632-643

  Qiao, Lu ^a,b   Koutsakis, Polychronis ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Bank of Montreal   (Canada)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bandwidth reservation; mobility; scheduling; telemedicine traffic

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BANDWIDTH RESERVATIONS; BANDWIDTH RESERVATION; CELLULAR NETWORK; COMPLEX PROBLEMS; CRITICAL INFORMATION; FAIR SCHEDULING; GUARANTEED BANDWIDTH; MOBILITY; ROAD MAP INFORMATION; TRAFFIC TRANSMISSION; USER MOBILITY; WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELEMEDICINE;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; JITTER; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; TELEMEDICINE; WAVE TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 79951901856     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2010.2095472     Document Type: Article

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