Enhanced handover architecture in IEEE 802.21-enabled heterogeneous wireless networks

2013 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, CITS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Omheni, N ^a   Zarai, F ^a   Obaidat, M S ^b   Hsiao, K F ^c   Kamoun, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^b MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MING CHUAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Interworking; LTE Advanced Network; Media Independent Handover; Vertical Handover

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; INTERWORKING; INTERWORKING ARCHITECTURE; LTE- ADVANCED; MEDIA INDEPENDENT HANDOVER; VERTICAL HANDOVERS; WIRELESS HETEROGENEOUS NETWORK;

4G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; STANDARDS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84893631377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CITS.2013.6705729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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