Cellular handoff

Cellular handoff

Refers to the process that a telephone call is switched by computers from one transmitter to the next without disconnecting the signal, as a vehicle moves from cell to cell.

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cellular handoff

Network hardware; Wireless networking

Refers to the process that a telephone call is switched by computers from one transmitter to the next without disconnecting the signal, as a vehicle moves from cell to cell.

handoff

Military; Missile defense

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Engineering; Electronic engineering

In cellular communications networks, the changeover of reception from, and transmission to, a mobile or portable set from one repeater to another as the subscriber moves from one ...

handoff

Telecommunications; General telecom

In cellular mobile systems, the process of transferring a phone call in progress from one cell transmitter and receiver and frequency pair to another cell transmitter and receiver ...

handoff

Mobile communications; Mobile phones

The process by which the Mobile Telephone Switching Office passes a cellular phone conversation from one radio frequency in one cell to another radio frequency in another. The ...

handoff

Computer; Operating systems

A process by which an administrator can manually move a clustered mailbox server between nodes in a cluster. A handoff should only be performed by using the Move-ClusteredMailboxSe ...

pairing

Network hardware; Wireless networking

The process of creating a persistent link between two Bluetooth devices, which may involve the exchange of a passkey between two devices. This only occurs once; future connections ...

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Network hardware; Wireless networking

The authentication key used to establish a link between devices. A passkey is similar to a password, but the passkey is only used once you enter the passkey once and won’t ...

name discovery

Network hardware; Wireless networking

The mechanism that requests and receives a device name.

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Network hardware; Wireless networking

In a 3G mobile network, code network refers to the switching part of the UMTS or WCDMA network. It provides call control and performs mobility and high-level security functions ...

cost 231 model

Network hardware; Wireless networking

The most sophisticated empirical model. All walls in the vertical plane between transmitter and receiver are considered, and for each wall, individual materaial properties are ...

coverage

Network hardware; Wireless networking

In wireless communications, coverage refers to the region within which a paging receiver can receive reliably the transmission of the paging signals.

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