Understanding the nature of social mobile instant messaging in cellular networks

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 389-392

  Zhou, Xuan ^a   Zhao, Zhifeng ^a   Li, Rongpeng ^a   Zhou, Yifan ^a   Palicot, Jacques ^b   Zhang, Honggang ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITÉ EUROPÉENNE DE BRETAGNE   (France)

Author keywords

blocking rate; cellular networks; inter arrival time; lognormal; message length; Mobile instant messaging; ON OFF model; power law

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MESSAGE PASSING;

BLOCKING RATES; CELLULAR NETWORK; INSTANT MESSAGING; INTER-ARRIVAL TIME; LOG-NORMAL; MESSAGE LENGTH; POWER-LAW;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84898683285     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2014.012014.132592     Document Type: Article

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