Towards understanding the fundamentals of mobility in cellular networks

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1686-1698

  Lin, Xingqin ^a   Ganti, Radha Krishna ^b   Fleming, Philip J ^c   Andrews, Jeffrey G ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

cellular networks; handover; Mobility models; Poisson Voronoi tessellation; sojourn time

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK; HANDOVER; MOBILITY MODEL; POISSON-VORONOI TESSELLATION; SOJOURN TIME;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 84877728468     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2013.022113.120506     Document Type: Article

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