A survey on vertical handoff decision for heterogeneous wireless networks

Proceedings - 2009 IEEE Youth Conference on Information, Computing and Telecommunication, YC-ICT2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 279-282

  Chai, Rong ^a   Zhou, Wei Guang ^a   Chen, Qian Bin ^a   Tang, Lun ^a  

^a CHONGQING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Balancing algorithms; Heterogeneous wireless networks; Multiple attributes decision making; Vertical handoff

Indexed keywords

BALANCING ALGORITHMS; EXISTING PROBLEMS; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS ACCESS NETWORKS; HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS NETWORK; MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES DECISION MAKING; NEXT GENERATION NETWORK; SEAMLESS MOBILITY; VERTICAL HANDOFF; VERTICAL HANDOFF DECISION ALGORITHM; WIRELESS ACCESS SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; SURVEYS;

WIRELESS NETWORKS;

EID: 77950877405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/YCICT.2009.5382368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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