Seamless handover for LTE macro-femto networks based on reactive data bicasting

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1788-1791

  Guo, Tao ^a   Quddus, Atta Ul ^a   Tafazolli, Rahim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

data bicasting; femtocells; LTE; Seamless handover

Indexed keywords

DATA BICASTING; DATA-FORWARDING; FEMTOCELLS; HANDOVER; LTE; MACRO CELLS; MARKET ACCEPTANCE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PRACTICAL SCHEMES; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; SEAMLESS HANDOVER; SEAMLESS MOBILITY SUPPORT; SERVICE INTERRUPTION; TARGET CELLS; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT;

FEMTOCELL;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870497147     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2012.091712.121562     Document Type: Article

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