Interoperability criteria, mechanisms, and evaluation of system performance for transparently interoperating WLAN and UMTS-HSDPA networks.

The main challenge in the development of future wireless communication systems is to provide users with a wide range of services across different radio access technologies through a single mobile terminal, while maintaining the minimum QoS requirements, and ideally with no limits on the coverage are...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE Network : the magazine of global information exchange 19, 4 (2005).
1. Verfasser:	Al-Gizawi, T.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	English
Schlagworte:	HIPERLAN/2. UMTS. Universal Mobile Telecommunications System. WLAN. Dropped handovers. Heterogeneous wireless communication systems. High speed downlink packet access. Initial user assignment. Interoperability mechanisms. Intersystem handover. Multiple radio access technologies. Optical network selection. Overlapping networks. Radio access networks. Single mobile terminal. Unsatisfied users. Wireless local area networks.