Performance modelling and evaluation of a mobility management mechanism in IMS-based networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5233, Issue , 2011, Pages 594-611

  Mkwawa, Is Haka M ^a   Kouvatsos, Demetres D ^a   Brandstätter, Wolfgang ^b   Horak, Gerhard ^c   Geier, Alfons ^d   Kavadias, Christoforos ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b TELEKOM AUSTRIA AG   (Austria)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Germany)

^e TELETEL S A   (Greece)

Author keywords

generalized exponential (GE); GSM; handover; IP multimedia subsystem (IMS); maximum entropy (ME); mobility; performance evaluation; performance modelling; quality of service (QoS); queueing network model (QNM); serving call session control function (S CSCF); Session Initiation Protocol (SIP); Wi Fi; WLAN

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; MAXIMUM ENTROPY METHODS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF SERVICE; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TESTBEDS; WI-FI; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CALL SESSION CONTROL FUNCTIONS; GENERALIZED EXPONENTIAL (GE); HANDOVER; IP MULTIMEDIA SUBSYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MODELLING; QUEUEING NETWORK MODEL; SESSION INITIATION PROTOCOL; WLAN;

INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

EID: 79955876565     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02742-0_25     Document Type: Article

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