Wireless hotspots: current challenges and future directions
Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
Best compromise solution for a new multiobjective scheduling problem
Computers and Operations Research
AISLE: Autonomic Interface SeLEction for Wireless Users
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Simulative Analysis of Access Selection Algorithms for Multi-Access Networks
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Wireless hotspots: current challenges and future directions
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: Wireless mobile wireless applications and services on WLAN hotspots
A Cross-Layer (Layer 2 + 3) Handoff Management Protocol for Next-Generation Wireless Systems
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Performance analysis of a novel architecture to integrate heterogeneous wireless systems
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Networking issues in entertainment computing
Mobile Networks and Applications
Terminal management and intelligent access selection in heterogeneous environments
Mobile Networks and Applications
Context-for-wireless: context-sensitive energy-efficient wireless data transfer
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
Performance Analysis of Handoff Techniques Based on Mobile IP, TCP-Migrate, and SIP
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Development of a context-aware messaging system over heterogeneous wireless networks
IWCMC '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
Dynamic transport layer handover for heterogeneous communication environments
Computer Communications
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Mobile and ubiquitous multimedia
Challenges of real-time secondary usage of spectrum
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Protocols for mobility management in heterogeneous multi-hop wireless networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Multimedia Tools and Applications
A rate adaptation scheme for media streaming over heterogeneous networks
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
A generic architecture for 'always best connected' UTMS/WLAN mobile networks
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
Modelling the cost of heterogeneous wireless access networks
International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation
Middleware for multi-interfaces management through profiles handling
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
Optimal usage of multiple network connections
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Connectivity opportunity selection in heterogeneous wireless multi-hop networks
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
An overview of vertical handover decision strategies in heterogeneous wireless networks
Computer Communications
Adaptive handoff scheme for heterogeneous IP wireless networks
Computer Communications
Formulation of optimization problems for access selection in next generation wireless networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Mobile multimedia communications
Modelling user preferences and configuring services in B3G devices
Wireless Networks
Breaking the silos: access and service convergence over the mobile internet
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Multi-access Management in Heterogeneous Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Reliability and survivability methodologies for next generation networks
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia
Automatic multi-interface management through profile handling
Mobile Networks and Applications
Enhancing artificial intelligence on a real mobile game
International Journal of Computer Games Technology - Artificial Intelligence for Computer Games
An intelligent handover management system for future generation wireless networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Intelligent Systems for Future Generation Wireless Networks
A reliable communications architecture for real-time IP mobile applications
International Journal of Mobile Communications
S3: Smart Session Selection for Voice Communications in Next Generation Wireless Network
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
An ABC supported QoS multicast routing scheme based on beehive algorithm
Proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Simulation of wireless multi-* networks in NS-2
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Best permutation: a novel network selection scheme in heterogeneous wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing: Connecting the World Wirelessly
Enhancing WLAN/UMTS dual-mode services using a novel distributed multi-agent scheduling scheme
Computers and Electrical Engineering
End-to-end QoS support for IP and multimedia traffic in heterogeneous mobile networks
Computer Communications
Location assisted fast vertical handover for UMTS/WLAN overlay networks
Computer Communications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
Completing the convergence puzzle: a survey and a roadmap
IEEE Wireless Communications - Special issue title on applications and support technical for mobility and enterprise services
Securing the Communication in Private Heterogeneous Mobile Ad hoc Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Performance of wireless heterogeneous networks with always-best-connected users
NGI'09 Proceedings of the 5th Euro-NGI conference on Next Generation Internet networks
NERON: a route optimization scheme for nested mobile networks
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
A distributed network selection scheme in next generation heterogeneous wireless networks
WCNC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Wireless Communications & Networking Conference
Meeting Interactivity Requirements in Mobile E-Witness: An Experimental Study
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Trust-Assisted Handover Approach in Hybrid Wireless Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Small-world optimization based QoS multicast routing scheme with ABC supported
CCDC'09 Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on Chinese control and decision conference
Vertical handover among broadcast networks
ISWCS'09 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems
GIIS'09 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Global Information Infrastructure Symposium
A trajectory-aware vertical handoff algorithm
SoftCOM'09 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks
A cooperative vertical handover algorithm in integrated wireless and mobile network
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
Secure media independent handover message transport in heterogeneous networks
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking - Special issue on wireless network security
A novel terminal-controlled handover scheme in heterogeneous wireless networks
Computers and Electrical Engineering
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Cost-based approach to access selection and vertical handover decision in multi-access networks
NETWORKING'07 Proceedings of the 6th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Ad Hoc and sensor networks, wireless networks, next generation internet
Journal of Network and Systems Management
Semantics for intelligent delivery of multimedia content
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
A small-world optimization algorithm based and ABC supported QoS unicast routing scheme
NPC'07 Proceedings of the 2007 IFIP international conference on Network and parallel computing
Restricted sleep mode for effective cell throughput improvement in vertical handover
APCC'09 Proceedings of the 15th Asia-Pacific conference on Communications
Mobile games through the nets: a cross-layer architecture for seamless playing
Proceedings of the 3rd International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques
Uma abordagem de MDA para gerenciamento de handover ciente de contexto e embasado por feedback
Companion Proceedings of the XIV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
RACING: rate control for enhancing intermittent networking performance for mobile users
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
A QoS-based vertical handoff scheme for interworking of WLAN and WiMAX
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Optimal network selection in heterogeneous wireless multimedia networks
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Heterogeneous base station placement for wireless networks
MWS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE conference on Mobile WiMAX
In search of energy-efficient mobile networking
IEEE Communications Magazine
Optimal network selection in heterogeneous wireless multimedia networks
Wireless Networks
Bandwidth efficient mobility, management for heterogeneous wireless networks
CCNC'10 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE conference on Consumer communications and networking conference
SUTIL - Network selection based on utility function and integer linear programming
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Mobile Networks and Applications
Self configuration of 4G network terminals
CAR'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international Asia conference on Informatics in control, automation and robotics - Volume 1
Wireless networks at the service of effective first response work: the E-SPONDER vision
ISWPC'10 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE international conference on Wireless pervasive computing
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
A local knowledge base for the media independent information system
FIS'2009 Proceedings of the Second Future internet conference on Future internet
Joint resource allocation for parallel multi-radio access in heterogeneous wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Review: An overview of vertical handover techniques: Algorithms, protocols and tools
Computer Communications
Autonomic personalized handover decisions for mobile services in heterogeneous wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Intelligent Decision Technologies - Special issue on design of intelligent environment
The MIH-based vertical handover method for Wi-Fi and WiMAX integrated network
International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems
Always best (dis-)connected: challenges to interconnect highly heterogeneous networks
WWIC'11 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC 6 international conference on Wired/wireless internet communications
MOTA: engineering an operator agnostic mobile service
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Towards autonomic handover decision management in 4g networks
MMNS'06 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
An artificial fish swarm algorithm based and ABC supported qos unicast routing scheme in NGI
ISPA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
Future wireless networks: key issues and a survey (ID/locator split perspective)
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
Cognitive engine: design aspects for mobile clouds
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Radio and Advanced Spectrum Management
On the potential of heterogeneous networks
WWIC'06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
SEBAG: a new dynamic end-to-end connection management scheme for multihomed mobile hosts
IWDC'05 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Distributed Computing
Prediction-Based multicast mobility management in mobile internet
ISPA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
IWQoS'05 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Quality of Service
Integrating WMAN with WWAN for seamless services
ICN'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Networking - Volume Part I
Location assisted fast vertical handover for UMTS/WLAN overlay networks
WWIC'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
Utility-Aware Cognitive Network Selections in Wireless Infrastructures
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
ABC supported handoff decision scheme based on population migration
EvoCOMNET'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation - Volume Part II
MIPv6 binding authentication for b3g networks
EURO-NGI'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Wireless Systems and Network Architectures in Next Generation Internet
P2P-Based mobility management for heterogeneous wireless networks and mesh networks
EURO-NGI'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Wireless Systems and Network Architectures in Next Generation Internet
Seamless link quality guaranteed handover scheme over experimental IEEE 802.21 MIH testbed
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
UPMT per-application mobility management solution: a demo for linux and android terminals
Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
UPS: Universal Protocol Stack for emerging wireless networks
Ad Hoc Networks
Towards an Efficient Network Selection Technique Based on Differentiated Weight of Access Interface
International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking
Journal of Network and Systems Management
RAT selection for heterogeneous wireless networks using support vector machine
Proceedings of the 2013 Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems
Mobility Support for IPv6-based Next Generation Wireless Networks: A Survey of Related Protocols
International Journal of Wireless Networks and Broadband Technologies
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Over the last few years, we have experienced a variety of access technologies being deployed. While 2G cellular systems evolve into 3G systems such as UMTS or cdma2000, providing worldwide coverage, wireless LAN solutions have been extensively deployed to provide hotspot high-bandwidth Internet access in airports, hotels, and conference centers. At the same time, fixed access such as DSL and cable modem tied to wireless LANs appear in home and office environments. The always best connected (ABC) concept allows a person connectivity to applications using the devices and access technologies that best suit his or her needs, thereby combining the features of access technologies such as DSL, Bluetooth, and WLAN with cellular systems to provide an enhanced user experience for 2.5G, 3G, and beyond. An always best connected scenario, where a person is allowed to choose the best available access networks and devices at any point in time, generates great complexity and a number of requirements, not only for the technical solutions, but also in terms of business relationships between operators and service providers, and in subscription handling. This article describes the concept of being always best connected, discusses the user experience and business relationships in an ABC environment, and outlines the different aspects of an ABC solution that will broaden the technology and business base of 3G.