Abstract
With the rapid development of mobile communication technology, many heterogeneous wireless access network technologies appear, resulting in that mobile terminals often can access different networks. Therefore, an appropriate access network needs to be selected for the mobile terminal according to the context information. In this paper, we propose an IEEE 802.21 based heterogeneous access network selection mechanism. Taking the fairness among terminals and profits of network providers into account, the mechanism can meet the basic requirements of users’ applications in the process of access network selection. We conduct a simulation and performance evaluation on the algorithm according to a typical network topology. Result shows that our algorithm can not only meet the performance demand but also consider network providers’ profits and the fairness during network resource allocation.
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This work is supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China under Grant No. 61225012 and No. 71325002; the Specialized Research Fund of the Doctoral Program of Higher Education for the Priority Development Areas under Grant No. 20120042130003; Liaoning BaiQianWan Talents Program under Grant No. 2013921068.
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Wang, R., Wang, X., Li, F., Huang, M. (2015). An IEEE 802.21 Based Heterogeneous Access Network Selection Mechanism. In: Huang, DS., Han, K. (eds) Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications. ICIC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9227. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22053-6_60
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