Assignment of cells to switches in PCS networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Vertical handoffs in wireless overlay networks
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: mobile networking in the Internet
Minimum Cost Wireless Broadband Overlay Network Planning
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Minimizing roaming overheads for vertical handoff in heterogeneous wireless mobile networks
Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Wireless communications and mobile computing
A Novel Decision Strategy of Vertical Handoff in Overlay Wireless Networks
NCA '06 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications
Ant colony optimization for the cell assignment problem in PCS networks
Computers and Operations Research
Handover management in integrated WLAN and mobile WiMAX networks
IEEE Wireless Communications
Location area planning and cell-to-switch assignment in cellular networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
An approach for location area planning in a personal communication services network (PCSN)
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Assigning cells to switches in cellular mobile networks using taboosearch
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Assigning cells to switches in cellular mobile networks: a comparative study
Computer Communications
Policy-based QoS-management architecture in an integrated UMTS and WLAN environment
IEEE Communications Magazine
Handoffs in fourth generation heterogeneous networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Next-generation wireless technologies have seen a paradigm shift as multiple standards and protocols emerge almost every day. Each standard has its limitations and merits, which can be either masked or complemented by other standards. For commercialization, various services should be provided in a cost effective manner, compelling a service provider to roll out integrated next generation wireless networks to exploit the virtues of each. This paper discusses the planning problem of overlay network integrating, particularly 3G, WiMAX and WLAN, establishing proper connectivity among the three networks. In the proposed planning approach, the authors focused on the initial phase and have minimized the cost for vertical handoff generated, and the cost for wire line connection amongst the various network gateways of the overlay hierarchy. To validate the planning problem, the simulated annealing SA, a well-cited meta-heuristic H-II are presented and compared with a variant of distance based planning DBP.