… different access networks. Being an essential part in heterogeneous wireless systems,
vertical handover is more complex than conventional horizontal handover. As IEEE 802.21 …

… The main challenges and functionalities required to create an IEEE 802.21 media independence
service layer to optimize the usage of resources in heterogeneous wireless networks is …

… Moreover, we realized that VHO in heterogeneous wireless networks still faces difficulties
at different levels including architectural, decision- making and protocol sides. For decision…

… In this section, we provide an overview of recent work on vertical handoff decision in
heterogeneous wireless networks. A policy-enabled vertical handoff model is proposed in [11]. The …

… and vertical handovers in heterogeneous wireless networks is … the network conditions.
Firstly, the time required to perform a handover is estimated based on the neighboring network …

… Vertical handover schemes have become hot focus in … network architectures to realize
vertical handover. The most widely recognized method is to add a Media Independent Handover (…

… issues for implementing mobile cloud computing environment. Heterogeneous wireless
networks architecture then … Heterogeneous wireless networks merging to become a complete IP …

… Deployment of heterogeneous wireless networks is spreading … of network i used by mobile
node between two handoff … define the handoff cost as data volume lost due to handoff delay…

… media independent handover to perform vertical handover in the context of heterogeneous
wireless networks… the terminal side to optimize the handover decision making in the proposed …

… interruption during vertical handover (VHO) over heterogeneous wireless networks. The …
a central management unit, encoder, and media independent handover (MIH) server. The …