An overview of vertical handover decision strategies in heterogeneous wireless networks

By Meriem Kassar, B. Kervella, Guy Pujolle. Computer Communications, 2008

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In the next generation of wireless networks, mobile users can move between heterogeneous networks, using terminals with multiple access interfaces and non-real-time or real-time services. The most important issue in such environment is the Always Best Connected (ABC) concept allowing the best connectivity to applications anywhere at anytime. To answer ABC requirement, various vertical handover decision strategies have been proposed in the literature recently, using advanced tools and proven concepts. In this paper, we give an overview of the most interesting and recent strategies. We classify it into five categories for which we present their main characteristics. We also compare each one with the others in order to introduce our vertical handover decision approach.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

A Survey on High Mobility Wireless Communications: Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions (2016, background): “Various handover and mobility management algorithms in HetNet have been summarized in [206] and [207].”
Mathematical Modeling for Network Selection in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks — A Tutorial (2013, methodology): “Many studies proposed schemes by combining fuzzy logic with MADM algorithms [2], [22], [28], coined fuzzy MADM.”
Toward Edge Intelligence: Multiaccess Edge Computing for 5G and Internet of Things (2020, background): “…Existing Studies on Mobility Management: Though much attention has been paid to mobility management for traditional heterogeneous cellular networks [166], the strategies are not directly applicable for MEC systems as the inﬂuences of the computational resources at edge servers on the handover…”
A survey of vertical handover decision algorithms in Fourth Generation heterogeneous wireless networks (2010, methodology): “There are various ways to classify VHD algorithms [21,26].”