DMME: A distributed LTE mobility management entity

Bell Labs Technical Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-120

  An, Xueli ^a   Pianese, Fabio ^a   Widjaja, Indra ^a   Günay Acer, Utku ^a  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION POLICIES; ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION; CELLULAR MOBILITY; CELLULAR SYSTEM; CONTROL PLANES; DEPLOYMENT SCENARIOS; DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURE; FLEXIBLE CONTROL; HIGH-THROUGHPUT; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; MOBILITY PATTERN; OPERATOR NETWORKS; PRODUCTION NETWORK; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS; SERVER-BASED; SYNTHETIC MODELS; SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; USER BEHAVIORS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LONG TERM EVOLUTION (LTE); NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84865682629     PISSN: 10897089     EISSN: 15387305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bltj.21547     Document Type: Article

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