Paper Info
Title
A Mechanism for Vertical Handover Based on SAW Using IEEE 802.21.
Abstract
Nowadays, there is a lot of devices which are able to access wireless networks through a wide range of access technologies. For a device to move among these heterogeneous networks and stay always connected, mechanisms of vertical handover are needed. This paper proposes a handover decision mechanism using the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) in a heterogeneous wireless network environment using the IEEE 802.21. The proposed mechanism considers user preferences like cost as parameters of the candidate network to choose the best available network. We present some experiments that use a developed simulator to validate our mechanism. The results of these experiments show that the proposed solution distributes better the mobile nodes among the networks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-21444-8_10
Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics, and Telecommunications Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Wireless Networks,Next Generator Networks,Handover,IEEE 802.21
Access technology,Wireless network,Weighting,Vertical handover,Heterogeneous wireless network,Computer science,Computer network,Heterogeneous network,Handover,IEEE 802.21
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
68
1867-8211
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.39
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jorge Lima De Oliveira Filho120.73
Edmundo R. M. Madeira244054.31