Inter-company comparison using modified TOPSIS with objective weights
Computers and Operations Research
Terminal management and intelligent access selection in heterogeneous environments
Mobile Networks and Applications
PAWES: a flow distribution algorithm based on priority and weight self-production
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
A new 4G architecture providing multimode terminals always best connected services
IEEE Wireless Communications
SDL+QualNet: a novel simulation environment for wireless heterogeneous networks
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
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With the development of heterogeneous networks, multimode terminals are becoming more and more popular. However, when there are several different kinds of sessions requiring transmission simultaneously, how to distribute these sessions among the available access networks according to the different features of the flows and the current link conditions of the candidate networks is a new challenge. In this paper, we propose a new solution to the flow distribution problem for multimode terminals. Our proposal, Automatic Flow Distribution (AFD), includes a network selection algorithm located at the terminals and an admission control algorithm located at the access points of the networks. Consequently, the terminals and the networks can cooperate with each other and realize automatic flow distribution among the different available access networks. We utilize the notion of priority, ensuring that the more important sessions have preferential use of the network resources. In addition, in order not to excessively deteriorate the transmission performance of the lower priority flows, a probabilistic suspension scheme is introduced. Finally, the AFD method utilizes the concept of "entropy" to automatically compute the weights of different attributes which influence the flow distribution decision making, thus avoiding the users' difficulty to specify the weights manually.