M Peng, W Wang - Wireless personal communications, 2008 - Springer
The trend of inter-connection among a multitude of different wireless access networks presents the great and bright potential business opportunities for communication operators …
Vertical handoffs occur when a user changes association from one type of wireless access technology to another while maintaining an active session. Much work has been done in …
MA Khan, C Truong, T Geithner… - 2008 1st IFIP …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The increasing number of radio access technologies and the availability of multi-radio devices boost the need for novel resource allocation schemes in cellular networks. This …
Y Zhou, Y Rong, HA Choi, JH Kim… - 2008 IEEE Radio and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complementary characteristics of 3G cellular networks (such as UMTS) and IEEE's 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs) have stimulated intensive research efforts to integrate UMTS …
X Pei, G Zhu, Q Wang, G Liu, W Yuan - annals of telecommunications …, 2008 - Springer
A major challenge of the heterogeneous wireless networks is how to jointly utilize the resources of different radio access technologies in an efficient manner. In this paper, system …
Beyond 3G and 4G wireless promise'always best connected'as well as new high-rate wireless networks. Since costly earlier generation networks are still useful, load sharing …
The complementary nature of wireless access technologies has resulted in the concept of the integration of overlaid wireless access networks to create a robust and ubiquitous …