Performance Analysis of Mobile Data Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 482-497

  Mehmeti, Fidan ^a   Spyropoulos, Thrasyvoulos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b EURECOM   (France)

Author keywords

HetNets; Mobile data offloading; probability generating functions; queueing theory

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUEUEING THEORY; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; CELLULAR TECHNOLOGIES; HETNETS; MOBILE DATA OFFLOADING; MOBILE DATA TRAFFIC; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY GENERATING FUNCTIONS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85009781744     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2016.2557799     Document Type: Article

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