Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of wireless mobile communication
technologies, which promotes the integration of heterogeneous access networks. While …

Mobile terminals are often in the dynamic environment of heterogeneous networks. For
some reasons, they need to switch between different networks, namely vertical handover. At …

Heterogeneous wireless networks are an integration of dissimilar networks for better
coverage and spectral efficiency. These networks differ in cost, reliability, bandwidth …

Vertical handover is the essential feature of the next generation of heterogeneous wireless
networks. Network selection among accessible candidates is the most critical step in vertical …

Nowadays, with the evolution of the mobile devices towards a multimode architecture, the
users have the opportunity to utilize a wealth of services across a multitude of radio access …

With the coexistence of various wireless technologies, next generation wireless
communications will likely consist of an integrated system of networks, where the Access …

Efficient decision making in vertical handoff and network selection algorithms improves
users' quality of service and helps users meet service requirements, anywhere and at any …

Next generation wireless network (NGWN) is expected to integrate different radio access
technologies (RATs) and to support user services with different quality-of-service (QoS) …

Technological advances in heterogeneous wireless networks require the optimized solution
for network selection problem considering user, network, and service context. To solve this …

In the next generation wireless networks, different technologies belonging to one or more
operators should be integrated to form a heterogeneous environment based on an IP core …