Vertical handoff with predictive RSS and dwell time

Author

Kunarak, Sunisa ; Sulessathira, Raungrong ; Dutkiewicz, Eryk

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., King Mongkut´s Univ. of Technol. Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand

fYear

2013

fDate

22-25 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In this paper, multiple handoff decision criteria to permit connectivity across UMTS and WLAN/WiMAX under the mobile IP regional registration (MIP-RR) are presented. Handoff decision is based on the predicted received signal strength (RSS) of neighbor networks and dwell time. The merit values of candidate networks are compared to select an optimal network. RSS prediction and handoff decision performances are evaluated. The results illustrate that the proposed vertical handoff decision algorithm and network selection outperforms the other two approaches in reducing voice and data packet delay and increasing the throughput of WLAN/WiMAX.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; WiMax; data communication; mobility management (mobile radio); wireless LAN; MIP-RR; RSS prediction; UMTS; WLAN-WiMAX; data packet delay; dwell time; handoff decision performances; mobile IP regional registration; multiple handoff decision; network selection; predictive RSS; received signal strength; vertical handoff decision algorithm; voice packet delay; 3G mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile nodes; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; heterogeneous wireless networks; vertical handoff;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2013 - 2013 IEEE Region 10 Conference (31194)

Conference_Location

Xi´an

ISSN

2159-3442

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2825-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2013.6718529

Filename

6718529