A bidding model and cooperative game-based vertical handoff decision algorithm

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1263-1271

  Liu, Xingwei ^a,b   Fang, Xuming ^b   Chen, Xu ^a   Peng, Xuesong ^a  

^a XIHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bidding model; Cooperative game; Load balancing; Network selection; Vertical handoff decision

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

BIDDING MODELS; COOPERATIVE GAME; NETWORK SELECTION; NEXT-GENERATION WIRELESS NETWORK; QUALITYOF-SERVICE REQUIREMENT (QOS); VERTICAL HANDOFF DECISION ALGORITHM; VERTICAL HANDOFF DECISIONS; WIRELESS ACCESS TECHNOLOGY;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 79956153090     PISSN: 10848045     EISSN: 10958592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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