Preliminary analysis of 4G-LTE mobile network sharing for improving resiliency and operator differentiation

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 171 CCIS, Issue , 2011, Pages 73-93

  Daniel Philip, Venmani ^a   Gourhant, Yvon ^a   Zeghlache, Djamal ^b  

^a ORANGE LABS   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

4G LTE; Backhaul Networks; e Node B Virtualization; Infrastructure Sharing; Resiliency mechanisms

Indexed keywords

4G-LTE; BACKHAUL NETWORKS; E-NODE B VIRTUALIZATION; INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING; RESILIENCY MECHANISMS;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 80051575975     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22729-5_7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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