Optimal usage of multiple network connections
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
S3: Smart Session Selection for Voice Communications in Next Generation Wireless Network
IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
Cooperative user-network interactions in next generation communication networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Context-awareness handoff planning in heterogeneous wireless networks
UIC'10 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Ubiquitous intelligence and computing
Mobility management in ubiquitous environments
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Intelligent call setup strategy for multimedia communication in heterogeneous wireless network
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Evaluation of an intelligent utility-based strategy for dynamic wireless network selection
MMNS'06 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP/IEEE international conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services
An integrated fuzzy-grey based approach to group decision making problem for a wagon company
Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology
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The success of broadband service has attracted more people to surf internet with the demand of high mobility and high bandwidth. The ongoing wireless local area network (WLAN) standardization and development activities allow WLAN to provide high data rate in unlicensed spectrum. It motivates cellular network operators to adopt WLAN as a complement to cellular 3G systems in hot spot areas. Consequently, it is imperative to develop a network selection technique to assure quality-of-service (QoS) for the integrated cellular/WLAN system. In this paper, an optimization scheme for mobile users to select a network in an integrated WLAN and universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS) system is proposed. In order to provide users a prospect of being always best connected, analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and grey relational analysis (GRA) techniques are integrated to make decision. The former defines selection criteria and the latter evaluates network alternatives. The network selection module is built at the link layer, and collects the time-varying QoS information through cross-layer message signaling. Simulations conducted in a heterogeneous system with UMTS and WLAN show that the proposed network selection technique can successfully satisfy QoS requirements for a variety of applications through a fair decision on the optimum network for mobile users at any time. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.