QoE-Driven Channel Allocation and Handoff Management for Seamless Multimedia in Cognitive 5G Cellular Networks

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 6569-6585

  Piran, Md Jalil ^a   Tran, Nguyen H ^a   Suh, Doug Young ^a   Song, Ju Bin ^a   Hong, Choong Seon ^a   Han, Zhu ^b  

^a Sejong University   (South Korea)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive radio (CR) networks; fifth generation (5G) cellular networks; handoff; multimedia communication; quality of experience (QoE)

Indexed keywords

5G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COGNITIVE RADIO; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; IMAGE CODING; MARKOV PROCESSES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SCALABLE VIDEO CODING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

CELLULAR NETWORK; COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORK; HANDOFF; MULTI-MEDIA COMMUNICATIONS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE);

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 85029654746     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2016.2629507     Document Type: Article

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