Traffic and mobility management in networks of femtocells

Mobile Networks and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 662-673

  Ferragut, Jaime ^a   Mangues Bafalluy, Josep ^a   Núñez Martínez, José ^a   Zdarsky, Frank ^b  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Handover; Local breakout; Mobility management; Networks of femtocells; Routing; Traffic management

Indexed keywords

FEMTOCELLS; HANDOVER; LOCAL BREAKOUT; MOBILITY MANAGEMENT; ROUTING; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

FEMTOCELL; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; INTEROPERABILITY; NETWORK LAYERS; NETWORK ROUTING;

GATEWAYS (COMPUTER NETWORKS);

EID: 84869861202     PISSN: 1383469X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11036-012-0396-9     Document Type: Article

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