An energy-efficient handover scheme with geographic mobility awareness in WiMAX-WiFi integrated networks

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Yang, Wen Hsin ^a,b   Wang, You Chiun ^a   Tseng, Yu Chee ^a   Lin, Bao Shuh P ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Handover; Network selection; WiFi; WiMAX; Wireless network

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; CANDIDATE SELECTION; CRITICAL ISSUES; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EFFICIENT; HANDOVER; HANDOVER SCHEMES; INTEGRATED NETWORKS; INTERFACE SWITCHING; MOVING SPEED; NETWORK SCANNING; NETWORK SELECTION; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RELAY STATIONS; SIMULATION RESULT; WI FI NETWORKS; WIRELESS INTERNET ACCESS; WIRELESS SERVICES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INTEROPERABILITY; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING; WI-FI; WIMAX;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 70349173750     PISSN: 15253511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WCNC.2009.4917580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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