Mobility: A double-edged sword for HSPA networks: A large-scale test on hong kong mobile HSPA networks

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1895-1907

  Tso, Fung Po ^a   Teng, Jin ^b   Jia, Weijia ^c   Xuan, Dong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Ohio State University   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

bandwidth sharing; Mobile HSPA networks; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH SHARING; CELLULAR STANDARDS; CITY BUS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; END USERS; FALL-OVER; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FIELD TEST; HONG-KONG; LARGE SCALE TESTS; MOBILE SCENARIOS; OFF-SHORE; PACKET ACCESS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PUBLIC REPORTS; THROUGHPUT PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC FLOW; URBAN AREAS; WIRELESS ENVIRONMENT;

HARDWARE; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84865677059     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.289     Document Type: Article

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