UMTS Networks: Architecture, Mobility and Services
UMTS Networks: Architecture, Mobility and Services
A Fuzzy-Neural Based Approach for Joint Radio Resource Management in a Beyond 3G Framework
QSHINE '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks
Multiservice vertical handoff decision algorithms
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
Access network selection for coexisted WWAN, WMAN and WLAN using combined fuzzy logic and AHP
International Journal of Innovative Computing and Applications
A Connection Selection Method and Vertical Handoff in Hybrid Wireless Environment
ICFN '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Future Networks
A flexible handover mechanism for seamless service continuity in heterogeneous environments
Computer Communications
SAE and the Evolved Packet Core: Driving the Mobile Broadband Revolution
SAE and the Evolved Packet Core: Driving the Mobile Broadband Revolution
Policy Based Mobility & Flow Management for IPv6 Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Handoff prioritization and decision schemes in wireless cellular networks: a survey
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials
Vertical handoffs in fourth-generation multinetwork environments
IEEE Wireless Communications
Hybrid TDOA/AOA mobile user location for wideband CDMA cellular systems
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Mobility management incorporating fuzzy logic for heterogeneous a IP environment
IEEE Communications Magazine
Handoffs in fourth generation heterogeneous networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
The evolution to 4G cellular systems: LTE-Advanced
Physical Communication
Autonomic system for mobility support in 4G networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Load balancing for cellular/WLAN integrated networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
The selection of the most suitable radio access technology to serve as the communication means for a service in a heterogeneous wireless access network is a complex task. It considers a number of different parameters and it involves numerous network technologies and entities. Several mechanisms have been proposed that focus on different aspects and follow different strategies. We introduce a policy based scheme that takes into consideration the user preferences, along with network conditions and user moving speed. Its ultimate goal is to support a session through the most desirable radio access technology, from the user perspective, while managing the overall network resources in an optimum way. It comprises a distributed algorithm running at the terminal and the network side. The performance of the proposed mechanism is evaluated against that of a typical load balancing scheme, commonly used in the literature. The results show that the holistic treatment of the diverse parameters fulfils the aforementioned goal.