A survey on vertical handoff decision for heterogeneous wireless networks

Author

Chai, Rong ; Zhou, Wei-Guang ; Chen, Qian-bin ; Tang, Lun

Author_Institution

Coll. of Commun. & Inf. Eng., Chongqing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., Chongqing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-21 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

282

Abstract

Different kinds of wireless access systems will be integrated in next generation network. To support seamless mobility between these heterogeneous wireless access networks, efficient and reliable vertical handoff schemes are required. In this paper, a survey on vertical handoff decision algorithms is given and the algorithms are described, analyzed and compared. In the end, major existing problems and future research direction are discussed.

Keywords

mobility management (mobile radio); radio access networks; heterogeneous wireless access networks; next generation network; seamless mobility; vertical handoff decision algorithms; Cellular networks; Cost function; Educational institutions; Hysteresis; Mobile ad hoc networks; Next generation networking; Resource management; Signal to noise ratio; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks; Heterogeneous wireless networks; balancing algorithms; multiple attributes decision making; vertical handoff;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information, Computing and Telecommunication, 2009. YC-ICT '09. IEEE Youth Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5074-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5076-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/YCICT.2009.5382368

Filename

5382368