Title
The Ambient Networks Heterogeneous Access Selection Architecture
Abstract
Forthcoming wireless communications will be characterized by the ubiquity of multiaccess. Despite the inherently increased complexity, end-users should be able to take advantage of the most suitable access network. Thus, access selection in an environment with different overlapping radio technologies is of central interest and an architecture is needed that performs equally well on single- and multi-operator scenarios, considers several parameters, and respects the principle of layering. In this paper, we introduce the Ambient Networks heterogeneous access selection architecture explaining how it meets such requirements. We present the essential architectural components and explain their interactions. We illustrate how the proposed architecture works in practice and discuss recent results form our prototype-based validation.
Year
Keywords
Field
2011
access network,wireless communication
Architecture,Applications architecture,Wireless,Computer science,Computer network,Access network discovery and selection function,Reference architecture,Access network,Distributed computing
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1105.1
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.92
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kostas Pentikousis190084.24
Ramón Agüero213640.15
Jens Gebert310513.14
José Antonio Galache429318.65
Oliver Blume572847.45
Pekka Paakkonen610310.96