Learning to coordinate without sharing information
AAAI '94 Proceedings of the twelfth national conference on Artificial intelligence (vol. 1)
Microcellular handoff using fuzzy techniques
Wireless Networks
Multiagent systems: a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence
Multiagent systems: a modern approach to distributed artificial intelligence
Multiagent learning using a variable learning rate
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
A Spatial Model Based on the Notions of Spatial Conceptual Map and of Object's Influence Areas
COSIT '99 Proceedings of the International Conference on Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science
A multicriteria handoff decision scheme for the next generation tactical communications systems
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Special issue: Military communications systems and technologies
A Mobility Prediction Architecture Based on Contextual Knowledge and Spatial Conceptual Maps
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Handoff management in wireless data networks using topography-aware mobility prediction
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
User-perceived quality of service in wireless data networks
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Context-Based Network and Application Management on Seamless Networking Platform
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
ISCC '06 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Managing mobility and adaptation in upcoming 802.21 enabled devices
WMASH '06 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
Context-aware handover using active network technology
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
OmniCon: a Mobile IP-based vertical handoff system for wireless LAN and GPRS links
Software—Practice & Experience
IEEE 802.21 enabled mobile terminals for optimized WLAN/3G handovers: a case study
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
Multiservice vertical handoff decision algorithms
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
QoS provisioning by EFuNNs-based handoff planning in cellular MPLS networks
Computer Communications
A seamless context-aware architecture for fourth generation wireless networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Advice taking in multiagent reinforcement learning
Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
An effective vertical handoff scheme based on service management for ubiquitous computing
Computer Communications
An overview of vertical handover decision strategies in heterogeneous wireless networks
Computer Communications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
No-reference video quality assessment for MPEG-2 video streams using BP neural networks
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Interaction Sciences: Information Technology, Culture and Human
Handover Management in Enhanced MIH Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Environment
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
User measures of quality of experience: why being objective and quantitative is important
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking - Special issue on improving quality of experience for network services
A generic quantitative relationship between quality of experience and quality of service
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking - Special issue on improving quality of experience for network services
Machine Learning Approach for Quality of Experience Aware Networks
INCOS '10 Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems
Mobility management in ubiquitous environments
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Nonlinearity Modelling of QoE for Video Streaming over Wireless and Mobile Network
ISMS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Second International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Modelling and Simulation
Context-aware media independent information server for optimized seamless handover procedures
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A survey of QoE assurance in converged networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A probabilistic context-aware approach for quality of experience measurement in pervasive systems
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
A context-aware handover decision based on user perceived quality of service trigger
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
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
IEEE Wireless Communications
A Comprehensive Survey of Multiagent Reinforcement Learning
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
Vertical handover supporting pervasive computing in future wireless networks
Computer Communications
Mobility management incorporating fuzzy logic for heterogeneous a IP environment
IEEE Communications Magazine
Standardization activities in the ITU for a QoE assessment of IPTV
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Recent developments in heterogeneous mobile networks and growing demands for variety of real-time and multimedia applications have emphasized the necessity of more intelligent handover decisions. Addressing the context knowledge of mobile devices, users, applications, and networks is the subject of context-aware handoff decision as a recent effort to this aim. However, user perception has not been attended adequately in the area of context-aware handover decision making. Mobile users may have different judgments about the Quality of Service (QoS) depending on their environmental conditions, and personal and psychological characteristics. This reality has been exploited in this paper to introduce a personalized user-centric handoff decision method to decide about the time and target of handover based on User Perceived Quality (UPQ) feedbacks. The UPQ degradations are mainly for the sake of (1) exiting the coverage of the serving Point of Attachment (PoA) or (2) QoS degradation of serving access network. Using UPQ metric, the proposed method obviates the necessity of being aware about rapidly varying network QoS parameters and overcomes the complexity and overhead of gathering and managing some other context information. Moreover, considering the underlying network and geographical map, the proposed method is able to inherently exploit the trajectory information of mobile users for handover decision. UPQ degradation is not only due to the user behaviour, but also due to the behaviours of others users. As such, multi-agent reinforcement learning paradigm has been considered for target PoA selection. The employed decision algorithm is based on WoLF-PHC learning method where UPQ is used as a delayed reward for training. The proposed handoff decision has been implemented under IEEE 802.21 framework using NS2 network simulator. The results have shown better performance of the proposed method comparing to conventional methods assuming regular movement of mobile users.