Validation of an Improved Location-Based Handover Algorithm Using GSM Measurement Data

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 530-536

  Lin, Hsin Piao ^a   Juang, Rong Terng ^a   Lin, Ding Bing ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Handover; mobile location; mobile velocity estimation; shadow fading

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008033381     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2005.73     Document Type: Article

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