Autonomic personalized handover decisions for mobile services in heterogeneous wireless networks

Computer Networks

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1520-1532

  Kang, Joon Myung ^a   Strassner, John ^a   Seo, Sin Seok ^a   Hong, James Won Ki ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Autonomic management; Handover decision; Heterogeneous wireless networks; Mobility management; Personalization

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC MANAGEMENT; HANDOVER DECISION; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; PERSONALIZATIONS;

ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; NETWORK MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79955567703     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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