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A Policy for Group Vertical Handover Attempts

Authors:
Nivia Cruz Quental
Paulo André da Silva Gonçalves

Keywords: GVHO; handover; attempt; latency

Abstract:
The rising of heterogeneous networks brings vertical handover as an important topic in research. Current challenges include proposing efficient handover schemes or adapting classic existing schemes. In this paper, we propose a policy for Group Vertical Handover (GVHO) attempts. We evaluate our solution by modifying an existing GVHO scheme. Such scheme handles vertical group handovers based on a threshold that limits handover blocking probability. Although our study was made based on a specific scheme, the proposed solution is generic enough to be applied in other GVHO schemes. Results show that our solution reduces the handover latency in comparison to the original GVHO scheme studied while maintaining the handover blocking probability under a pre-defined threshold. In particular, we could reduce latency from 20% to 40% in the scenarios studied.

Pages: 154 to 159

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: February 23, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4413

ISBN: 978-1-61208-318-6

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 23, 2014 to February 27, 2014