In recent years, there has been an increased interest in the integration of different
technologies in heterogeneous environments. Modelling heterogeneous systems is a …

The rapid development and deployment of integrated heterogeneous networking
environments such as third generation (3G) cellular WANs and WLANs will soon become …

Various types of wireless networks have been developed and deployed including 3G,
WLAN, WiMAX, LTE and LTE Advanced. User connectivity and network performance can be …

Wireless and mobile communication systems have evolved considerably in recent years.
Seamless mobility is one of the main challenges facing mobile users in wireless and mobile …

The main feature of the next generation wireless communication systems is the ability to
establish ubiquitous and seamless access to various radio access technologies (RATs) and …

This paper presents a new analytical model to enhance the modelling of vertical handover
for integrated cellular/WLAN systems. The WLAN system considered is within the coverage …

It is widely expected that next generation wireless communication systems will be
heterogeneous, integrating a wide variety of wireless access networks. Of particular interest …

Abstract The Guard Channel Scheme (GCS) and Handoff Queueing Scheme (HQS) are the
popular and practical strategies to prioritize handoff calls in wireless cellular networks. A key …

Carrier aggregation and integration of heterogeneous networks allow the mobile user
equipment to benefit from wider bandwidth and radio coverage of different access …

It is desirable to maximize the WLAN usage in integrated heterogeneous network
environment due to its high speed access and low access cost. We have modeled under …