A Simple Additive Weighting Vertical Handoff Algorithm Based on SINR and AHP for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

The architecture for the Beyond 3 rd Generation or 4 th Generation wireless networks aims at integrating various heterogeneous wireless access networks over an IP backbone. To provide seamless mobility, one of the design issues is the vertical handoff support. In this paper, we propose a SINR (Signa...

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Main Authors: Liu, Sheng-mei, Pan, Su, Mi, Zheng-kun, Meng, Qing-min, Xu, Ming-hai
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Additive noise
AHP
Algorithm design and analysis
Bandwidth
heterogeneous wireless networks
Interference
SAW
Signal analysis
Signal processing
Signal to noise ratio
SINR
Spine
Telecommunication traffic
vertical handoff
Wireless networks
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Summary:The architecture for the Beyond 3 rd Generation or 4 th Generation wireless networks aims at integrating various heterogeneous wireless access networks over an IP backbone. To provide seamless mobility, one of the design issues is the vertical handoff support. In this paper, we propose a SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) based SAW (Simple Additive Weighting)(SASAW) vertical handoff algorithm which uses the combined effects of SINR, user required bandwidth, user traffic cost and available bandwidth of the participating access networks to make handoff decisions for multi-attribute QoS consideration according to the features of the traffic. The results show that our proposed scheme can achieve excellent performance according to the characteristics of the traffic by considering the relations of multiple attributions synthetically.
DOI:10.1109/ICICTA.2010.50