Context-aware mobility management in heterogeneous network environments

Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 19-32

  Talebifard, Peyman ^a   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Access network selection; Context aware; MADM; Quality of context; Weighted product method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863687757     PISSN: 20935374     EISSN: 20935382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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