Vertical mobility management architectures in wireless networks: A comprehensive survey and future directions

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-63

  Fernandes, Stenio ^a   Karmouch, Ahmed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mobility Management; Vertical Handover; Wireless Mobile Communication

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS COMPETITION; CONTEXT-AWARE; CROSS-LAYER; DESIGN RATIONALE; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; HANDOVER DECISION; IN-DEPTH ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE APPROACH; MANDATORY REQUIREMENT; MOBILE USERS; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; NETWORK OPERATOR; SEAMLESS HANDOVER; VERTICAL HANDOVERS; WIRELESS MOBILE COMMUNICATION;

COMPETITION; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; RADIO SYSTEMS;

ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 84857503113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.082010.00099     Document Type: Article

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