A comparison of mechanisms for improving TCP performance over wireless links
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Microcellular handoff using fuzzy techniques
Wireless Networks
Vertical handoffs in wireless overlay networks
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: mobile networking in the Internet
MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
WiFi Bridge: Wireless Mobility Framework Supporting Session Continuity
PERCOM '03 Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications
I-TCP: indirect TCP for mobile hosts
ICDCS '95 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Vertical handoff procedure and algorithm between IEEE802.11 WLAN and CDMA cellular network
CIC'02 Proceedings of the 7th CDMA international conference on Mobile communications
Providing quality of service in always best connected networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
The software radio architecture
IEEE Communications Magazine
An overview of vertical handover decision strategies in heterogeneous wireless networks
Computer Communications
A Quality of Service Based Mobility Management in Heterogenous Wireless Networks
NEW2AN '09 and ruSMART '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Smart Spaces and Next Generation Wired/Wireless Networking and Second Conference on Smart Spaces
Regulating user arrivals at a mobile IP home agent
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
Mobile Networks and Applications
A novel AHP and GRA based handover decision mechanism in heterogeneous wireless networks
ICICA'10 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information computing and applications
A framework to mobility and interactivity for convergent technologies
MIV'05 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Multimedia, internet & video technologies
Autonomic personalized handover decisions for mobile services in heterogeneous wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Autonomic management for personalized handover decisions in heterogeneous wireless networks
AIMS'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Autonomous infrastructure, management, and security: managing the dynamics of networks and services
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
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To implement seamless mobility inside an integrated, multiple (e.g. GPRS/WiFi) access system, a vertical handover policy has to be devised. This is usually done at the mobile terminal, allowing it to be customized from a end-user perspective, in order to fit individual needs/preferences. We propose a new approach in taking vertical handover decisions, which are not anymore exclusively based on the knowledge of the available access networks' characteristics but also on higher level parameters which fall in the transport and application layers. To this extent, in this paper a model has been realized and simulations have been run in order to evaluate the impact of the vertical handover and its frequency on a set of typical user's network applications/services. We also take into account the user preferences in terms of cost and quality of service. We believe this approach reflects the optimal settings from the user's point of view with regard to his running services and applications. Our aim is to understand how to define a metric to be used in order to devise a solution which should try to balance the overall cost of vertical handovers with the actual benefits they bring to actual user's networking needs. This way, each mobile user could autonomously apply the handover decision policy which is more convenient to his specific needs.