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In the vehicular network, the smart car provides various network services for the passenger by the user equipment (UE). However, the services might be interrupted since the handover procedure of the UE is performed frequently. The existing handover decision schemes in cellular networks are mostly based on received signal strength to make the handover decision. However, these schemes suffer from a ping-pong effect and, as a result, perform unnecessary handovers incurring extra signaling overhead and packet loss, which is even more exaggerated in the ultradense environment. The failure probability of the handover procedure will increase when the velocity of the car is fast. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a navigation-assisted seamless handover (NASH) scheme for reducing unnecessary handovers and the ping-pong effect. NASH uses the multiple input multiple output technique to perform the …