A Vertical Handoff Method via Self-Selection Decision Tree for Internet of Vehicles

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 1183-1192

  Wang, Shangguang ^a   Fan, Cunqun ^a   Hsu, Ching Hsien ^b   Sun, Qibo ^a   Yang, Fangchun ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decision tree; feedback decision; Internet of Vehicles (IoVs); self selection; Vertical handoff (VHO)

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CHANNEL ESTIMATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DECISION TREES; INTERNET; INTEROPERABILITY; QUALITY OF SERVICE; VEHICLES; WIMAX;

SELECTION DECISIONS; SELF-SELECTION; SERVICE QUALITY; THIRD GENERATION; VEHICLE MOVEMENTS; VEHICLE SERVICE; VERTICAL HANDOFF; WIRELESS ACCESS IN VEHICULAR ENVIRONMENTS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84895134059     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2014.2306210     Document Type: Article

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