Cost-based approach to access selection and vertical handover decision in multi-access networks

  • Authors:

  • Fanchun Jin;Hyeong-Ah Choi;Jae-Hoon Kim;Se-Hyun Oh;Jong-Tae Ihm;JungKyo Sohn;Hyeong In Choi

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC;Department of Computer Science, George Washington University, Washington, DC;Technology Strategy Group, SK Telecom, Seoul, Korea;Technology Strategy Group, SK Telecom, Seoul, Korea;Technology Strategy Group, SK Telecom, Seoul, Korea;Department of Mathematics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Department of Mathematics, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

  • Venue:
  • NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In multi access network environments, mobile stations may encounter multiple choices for selecting an access network. Carefully designed access selection schemes can provide not only mobile users with better services but also network operators with better resource utilizations. It is also envisioned that further improvements can be achieved by redistributing mobile stations from one access network to anther (i.e., vertical handovers). Such decisions should be made by following carefully designed, yet simple to implement, protocols. In this paper, we present a cost-based scheme for access selection and vertical handover decision algorithms. The proposed algorithm was implemented in a Java-based simulator called MANSim (Multiple Access Network Simulator) that we developed. Our simulation results show that during the congested periods, the network throughput is significantly improved with greatly reduced call drop rate.