Cellular network performance analysis: Handoff algorithms based on mobile location and area information

Wireless Personal Communications

Volumn 30, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 97-117

  Markopoulos, Antonis E ^a   Pissaris, Panagiotis ^a   Kyriazakos, Sofoklis ^a   Sykas, Efstathios D ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

GSM; Handover optimization; Interference; Location aided network optimization; Ping pong; Power allocation; UMTS

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

CELLULAR NETWORKS; HANDOVER OPTIMIZATION; POWER ALLOCATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

EID: 9944234593     PISSN: 09296212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:WIRE.0000049393.01548.30     Document Type: Article

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