A multi-step vertical handoff mechanism for cellular multi-hop networks
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Performance monitoring and measurement of heterogeneous wireless and wired networks
Vertical handoffs as a radio resource management tool
Computer Communications
Towards comprehensive RRM frameworks for heterogeneous wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2009 conference on Information Science, Technology and Applications
Multi-service load sharing for resource management in the cellular/WLAN integrated network
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Cross-layer QOS architecture for 4G heterogeneous network services
ICACT'09 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Advanced Communication Technology - Volume 1
Load balancing access point association schemes for IEEE 802.11 wireless networks
WASA'11 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Wireless algorithms, systems, and applications
An Autonomic QoS-centric Architecture for Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Modified weight function based network selection algorithm for 4G wireless networks
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics
ISRN Communications and Networking
Load-balanced AP association in multi-hop wireless mesh networks
The Journal of Supercomputing
UDS: A Distributed RAT Selection Mechanism for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
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The interworking between heterogeneous third-generation cellular networks and wireless local area networks is one promising evolution approach to fourth-generation wireless networks, which can exploit the complementary advantages of the cellular network and WLANs. Resource management for the 4G-oriented cellular/WLAN integrated network is an important open issue that deserves more research efforts. In this article we present a policy framework for resource management in a loosely coupled cellular/WLAN integrated network, where load balancing policies are designed to efficiently utilize the pooled resources of the network. A two-phase control strategy is adopted in the load balancing policies, in which call assignment is used to provide a statistical quality of service guarantee during the admission phase, and dynamic vertical handoff during the traffic service phase is used to minimize the performance variations. Numerical results are presented to demonstrate that the proposed load balancing solution achieves significant performance improvement over two other reference schemes