Application signal threshold adaptation for vertical handoff in heterogeneous wireless networks

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3462, Issue , 2005, Pages 1193-1205

  Liang, Ben ^a   Zahran, Ahmed H ^a   Saleh, Aladdin O M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BELL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECISION MAKING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; BANDWIDTH; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; NEXT GENERATION NETWORKS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

HANDOFF SYMMETRY; SIGNAL STRENGTH; VERTICAL HANDOFF; WIRELESS NETWORKS; ACCESS TECHNOLOGY; APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS; AVAILABLE BANDWIDTH; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS SYSTEMS; INTEGRATED WIRELESS NETWORKS; SIGNAL STRENGTHS; VERTICAL HANDOFF DECISIONS;

TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; NETWORK LAYERS;

EID: 24944477079     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11422778_96     Document Type: Conference Paper

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