Modeling telecommunication infrastructures integrating Wideband wireless and wired networks

摘要

Future telecommunication systems will integrate wireline and wireless networks in a single, advanced infrastructure. It is expected that such systems, in the wireless part, will exploit microcellular archi- tectures in order to guarantee wideband multimedia services and to sustain the continuous growth of subscribers. In such a context, asynchronous transfer mode and Internet protocol are the basic technologies being considered by several studies and field implementations. In both cases, particular care has been devoted to cope with a large number of handoffs.