A Novel Group Vertical Handover Scheme Based on Maximum Blocking Probability in Heterogeneous Networks

The importance of network selection for wireless networks, is to facilitate users with various personal wireless devices to access their desired services via a range of available radio access networks. The inability of these networks to provide broadband data service applications to users poses a serious challenge in the wireless environment. Network Optimization has therefore become necessary, so as to accommodate the increasing number of users’ service application demands while maintaining the required quality of services. To achieve that, the need to incorporate intelligent and fast mechanism as a solution to select the best value network for the user arises. This paper provides an intelligent network selection strategy based on the user- and network-valued metrics to suit their preferences when communicating in multi-access environment. A user-driven network selection strategy that employs Multi-Access Service Selection Vertical Handover Decision Algorithm (MASS-VHDA) via three interfaces; Wi-Fi, WiMAX and LTE-A is proposed, numerically evaluated and simulated. The results from the performance analysis demonstrate some improvement in the QoS and network blocking probability to satisfy user application requests for multiple simultaneous services.

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Vertical handover decision using history-based communication graph for heterogeneous networks

2014 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS) ◽

10.1109/icos.2014.7042401 ◽

2014 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Bushra Naeem ◽

Razali Ngah ◽

Siti Z. Mohd Hashim ◽

Wajahat Maqbool

Keyword(s):

Heterogeneous Networks ◽

Vertical Handover ◽

Communication Graph ◽

Handover Decision

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Improving Modified Grey Relational Method for Vertical Handover in Heterogeneous Networks

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications ◽

10.14569/ijacsa.2019.0100240 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Imane Chattate ◽

Mohamed El ◽

Azeddine Khiat

Keyword(s):

Heterogeneous Networks ◽

Vertical Handover ◽

Grey Relational

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An effective handover scheme in heterogeneous networks

2016 International Conference on Computer Communication and Informatics (ICCCI) ◽

10.1109/iccci.2016.7480032 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Zhixiong Ding ◽

Xingjun Wang ◽

Xu Wang ◽

Linghao Xiao

Keyword(s):

Heterogeneous Networks ◽

Handover Scheme

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Performance Analysis of Handover Schemes in Heterogeneous Networks

Journal of Circuits System and Computers ◽

10.1142/s0218126618501773 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 27 (11) ◽

pp. 1850177 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

A. Bagubali ◽

Tanmay Verma ◽

Anurag Anand ◽

V. Prithiviraj ◽

P. S. Mallick

Keyword(s):

Performance Analysis ◽

Heterogeneous Networks ◽

Data Transfer ◽

Vertical Handover ◽

Mobile Systems ◽

Network Services ◽

Mobile Networking ◽

Handoff Delay ◽

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Internet protocol (IP)-based mobile systems are ushering new and faster technologies in wireless mobile networking. Therefore, the expectations from these network services with respect to data transfer rate and quality of service (QoS) are high. As such, meeting these requirements is the recent trend in modern wireless technologies. An important aspect regarding such improvements is the modification of handoff schemes between different networks. In this paper, we are focusing on the recent trends based on seamless handoff scheme in heterogeneous networks such as worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) and long term evolution (LTE). The development of the session initiation protocol (SIP) Prior-INVITE scheme is an improvement on the earlier used SIP Re-INVITE method, which comes a long way in decreasing the average handoff delay. The performance analysis using software simulation on account of various parameters, such as handoff delay, cost of signaling and packet loss rate are accomplished in this work. The performance analysis demonstrates that the proposed scheme outperforms the ordinary cross-layer scheme and noncross-layer scheme in a vertical handover scenario.

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