Bringing always best connectivity vision a step closer: Challenges and perspectives

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 158-166

  Louta, Malamati ^a   Bellavista, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4G SYSTEMS; ACCESS NETWORK; ACCESS NETWORK SELECTIONS; ADVANCED LEARNING; ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; RESEARCH EFFORTS; SERVICE ACCESS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 84873887749     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.2013.6461201     Document Type: Article

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