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Using Fuzzy Gray Relational Analysis in the Vertical Handover Process in Wireless Networks

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The use of internet is becoming larger, in more and more diverse situations, going from messaging, e-mailing, video and data transfers, to cloud computing, and internet of things (IoT). Users are willing to connect to any wireless access technology, anywhere and anytime to satisfy the ‘ABC’ (Always Best Connected). This leads to vertical handovers (VH). VH differs from horizontal handover (i.e., the transfer of connections between two base stations or access points with the same access technology). The transfer must be without session breaks.

In this paper, we propose a new hybrid decision method for VH decision process, named FGRA combining Fuzzy sets and Gray Relational Analysis (GRA) to perform more efficient VH decisions. Moreover, our combination allows the VHs to be seamless, without session ruptures. This new method is compared with the normal MADM methods GRA and TOPSIS, known for their efficiency in this context, in terms of number of handovers, and the QoS offered in every decision point. Our new hybrid method gives better results than the classical ones through the simulation scenarios’ results we perform.

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  1. Department of Computer Sciences FST, L@M Lab, RTM Team, Hassan II University, Casablanca, Morocco

    Mouâd Mansouri & Cherkaoui Leghris

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA

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Mansouri, M., Leghris, C. (2017). Using Fuzzy Gray Relational Analysis in the Vertical Handover Process in Wireless Networks. In: El Abbadi, A., Garbinato, B. (eds) Networked Systems. NETYS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10299. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59647-1_29

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