Soft multi-criteria decision algorithm for vertical handover in heterogeneous networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1215-1217

  Tamea, Gabriele ^a   Biagi, Mauro ^a   Cusani, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

multi criteria; outage probability; Vertical handover

Indexed keywords

MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTICRITERIA DECISION; OUTAGE PROBABILITY; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS; STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE; VERTICAL HANDOVERS;

ALGORITHMS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 82155175723     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2011.090911.111537     Document Type: Article

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