A traveling distance prediction based method to minimize unnecessary handovers from cellular networks to WLANs

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 14-16

  Yan, Xiaohuan ^a   Mani, Nallasamy ^a   Şekercioǧlu, Y Ahmet ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Handover failure probability; Received signal strength; Unnecessary handover robability; Vertical handover decision

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL RECEIVERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CELLULAR NETWORKS; HANDOVER FAILURE PROBABILITY; MOBILE TERMINAL; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; TRAVELING DISTANCE; UNNECESSARY HANDOVER PROBABIITY; VERTICAL HANDOVER DECISION;

CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS;

EID: 39549118897     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2008.071430     Document Type: Article

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