Paper Info
Title
Towards sustainable heterogeneous wireless networks: A decision strategy for AP selection with dynamic graphs.
Abstract
This paper considers a problem of user and access point associations in heterogeneous wireless networks consisting of multiple radio access technologies. The current association policies are mostly based on a selfish user behavior optimizing their own decision criteria. Such simple strategies, however, might fail especially in a congested place with a large number of users. From this perspective, this study propounds a strategy for optimizing the problem that aims at sustainably and fairly maximizing the minimal utility of users. The minimal utilities can be obtained from bare essentials of the quality of experience and defined by considering different requirements of each user. In order to analyze characteristics of the proposed selection strategy, we conduct simulations comparing it with the other selection method under each evaluation criterion. Numerical results suggest that the proposed selection i) enhances the total minimal utility in sustainable and fair manners, ii) indicates a distinctive trend in load balancing and iii) requires a comparable computational time and handover frequency in contrast with the other selection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.comnet.2018.01.008
Computer Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
Sustainability,Fairness,QoE,Access point selection,Heterogeneous network,Graph theory
Wireless network,Graph,Multiple-criteria decision analysis,Computer science,Load balancing (computing),Computer network,Decision strategy,Quality of experience,Handover,Sustainability,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
132
1389-1286
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hideo Kobayashi14313.28
Eiichi Kameda200.34
yoshiaki terashima333.16
Norihiko Shinomiya45019.15