Paper Info
Title
Vertical handover decision algorithm using ants' colonies for 4G heterogeneous wireless networks
Abstract
AbstractWith the development of 4G mobile telecommunication systems, providing users with the convenience of a seamless continuous connection is not enough anymore. Users want to be connected through the best available network with the best quality of service. It is necessary to have a good decision-making algorithm which decides whether it is necessary to perform handoff to another network, the best network to vertically perform handoff to, and the right time to initiate the handover. This paper proposes a new approach in which mobile terminals (MTs) continuously analyze the network and keep a database of the best available networks. The concept is based on QoS aware ant colony built on the vertical handoff mechanism that uses an updated version of ants' colony optimization decision algorithm (ACOR), the dynamic and static factors such as RSS, the cost of service, bandwidth, the velocity of MT, the power consumption and security, and the module for predicting the traveling distance within an IEEE 802.11 WLAN cell. Simulation results show that we can not only meet the individual needs of users in terms of QoS, but also improve the whole system performance by reducing the number of handover failures and unnecessary handover instances by up to 95%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1155/2016/6259802
Periodicals
Field
DocType
Volume
Wireless network,Vertical handover,Soft handover,Computer science,Quality of service,Algorithm,Computer network,Bandwidth (signal processing),Ant colony,RSS,Handover
Journal
2016
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2090-7141
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Imad El Fachtali130.41
Rachid Saadane22211.94
Mohammed Elkoutbi315418.06