A testbed implementation of hybrid decision model based seamless lightweight vertical handover

The next generation ubiquitous wireless networks will comprise of mobile users moving between heterogeneous networks with terminals having multiple access interfaces and services. Vertical handover techniques deal with the scenario where a user seamlessly moves between different network access techn...

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Published in2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Chakraborty, Tusher, Hossain, Md Shohrab, Atiquzzaman, Mohammed
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2017
Subjects
Handover
hybrid decision model
Mobile communication
Mobile computing
Ports (Computers)
Seamless Vertical handover
Servers
Testbed implementation
transparent handover
Wireless fidelity
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Summary:The next generation ubiquitous wireless networks will comprise of mobile users moving between heterogeneous networks with terminals having multiple access interfaces and services. Vertical handover techniques deal with the scenario where a user seamlessly moves between different network access technologies. The most crucial issue in such environment is seamless connectivity. Earlier works demand for infrastructural modification with cumbersome implementations. Here, we propose an automated, transparent, seamless, hybrid decision model based easy-to-implement vertical handover mechanism between WiFi and cellular network. The implementation of the mechanism does not supplant the current infrastructure. We carry out experiments on a testbed to demonstrate the efficacy of our proposed scheme. Experimental results show that a handover-held communication slightly differs from a handoverless communication in terms of diversified network metrics.
ISSN:1938-1883
DOI:10.1109/ICC.2017.7997397