Context aware vertical soft handoff algorithm for heterogeneous wireless networks
- Authors: Yang, Kemeng , Gondal, Iqbal , Qiu, Bin
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference paper
- Relation: Proceedings of the 68th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference p. 1266-1270
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- Description: Soft handoff in WCDMA systems allows multi connection between the user and base stations during handoff, in contrast to single connection in hard handoff. But multi connection flexibility leads to a trade-off between quality of service for the user and the system downlink capacity. The heterogeneous wireless networks consist of WCDMA and WLAN systems, which operate at different frequency with no direct interference. Therefore, a vertical soft handoff between downlink shared channels from WCDMA and WLAN will not suffer similar side effects as the horizontal soft handoff in WCDMA systems. In this paper, we present an analytical framework for vertical soft handoff and propose a context-aware vertical soft handoff algorithm (CAVSH) for heterogeneous wireless networks. CAVSH considers four user and system context parameters such as user required bandwidth, user traffic cost, access network utilization, and signal to interference-and-noise ratio (SINR). The results show that the proposed CAVSH can provide the system with lower dropping probability, lower average cost to the user and higher throughput, as compared with vertical hard handoff.
Multi-dimensional adaptive SINR based vertical handoff for heterogeneous wireless networks
- Authors: Yang, Kemeng , Gondal, Iqbal , Qiu, Bin
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: IEEE Communications Letters Vol. 12, no. 6 (2008), p. 438-440
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- Description: Vertical handoff in next generation heterogeneous wireless networks is a multi-dimensional issue. In this article we propose a multi-dimensional adaptive SINR based vertical handoff algorithm (MASVH) which uses the combined effects of SINR, user required bandwidth, user traffic cost and utilization from participating access networks to make handoff decisions for multi-attribute QoS consideration. Simulation results confirm that the new MASVH algorithm improves the system performance in terms of higher throughput and lower dropping probability, as well as reduces the user traffic cost for accessing the integrated wireless networks.