Signalling storms in 3G mobile networks

2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1017-1022

  Abdelrahman, Omer H ^a   Gelenbe, Erol ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

3G MOBILE NETWORK; CELLULAR NETWORK; MOBILE USERS; OVERLOAD CONDITION; SYSTEM OUTAGES;

STORMS;

EID: 84907001513     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2014.6883453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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