Optimal distributed vertical handoff strategies in vehicular heterogeneous networks

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 534-544

  Shafiee, Kaveh ^a   Attar, Alireza ^a   Leung, Victor C M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous Network; V2I; V2V; Vehicular Network; Vertical Handoff

Indexed keywords

ACCESS POINTS; AD-HOC NETWORKING; CELLULAR NETWORK; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; TRANSMISSION COSTS; TRANSMISSION TIME; USER MOBILITY PROFILES; V2I; V2V; VEHICLE-TO-INFRASTRUCTURE; VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION; VEHICULAR NETWORKS; VERTICAL HANDOFF; WIDE AREA;

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; COMPUTER NETWORK PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; DATA TRANSFER; DECISION MAKING; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

WIRELESS AD HOC NETWORKS;

EID: 79951965468     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2011.110304     Document Type: Article

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