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Towards a Cognitive Handoff for the Future Internet: A Holistic Vision

Authors:
Francisco A. Gonzalez-Horta
Rogerio A. Enriquez-Caldera
Juan M. Ramirez-Cortes
Jorge Martinez-Carballido
Eldamira Buenfil-Alpuche

Keywords: Cognitive handoff; future Internet; holism

Abstract:
Current handoffs are not designed to achieve multiple desirable features simultaneously. This weakness has resulted in handoff schemes that are seamless but not adaptive, or adaptive but not secure, or secure but not autonomous, or autonomous but not correct, etc. To face this limitation, we initiated a research project to develop a new kind of handoff system which attains multiple purposes simultaneously by using context information from the external and internal handoff environment. We envision a cognitive handoff as a multipurpose, multi-criteria, environment-aware, and policy-based handoff that trades-off multiple objectives to reach its intended goals. This paper presents a conceptual (soft) model of cognitive handoffs using a holistic approach. We applied the proposed model to identify cognitive handoff performance parameters and tradeoffs between conflicting objectives. We argue that cognitive handoffs are the archetype of handoffs for the future Internet.

Pages: 44 to 51

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: November 21, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-108-3

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 21, 2010 to November 26, 2010