A new model of the soft handover mechanism in the UMTS network

2014 9th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 84-87

  Hanczewski, Slawomir ^a   Stasiak, Maciej ^a   Zwierzykowski, Piotr ^a  

^a POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

active set; soft and softer handover; UMTS

Indexed keywords

3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVE SETS; NETWORK EFFICIENCY; NETWORK MODELING; NUMBER OF SERVICES; SOFT HAND OVERS; SOFTER HANDOVER; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT MECHANISMS; UMTS NETWORKS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 84910633772     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSNDSP.2014.6923803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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