Wenjie Guan
ABSTRACT
Vertical handoff is a switching process between heterogeneous wireless networks in a hybrid 3G/WLAN network. Vertical handoffs from WLAN to 3G network often fail due to the abrupt degrade of the WLAN signal strength in the transition areas. In this paper, a Handoff Trigger Table is introduced to improve the performance of vertical handoff. Based on this table, a proactive handoff scheme is proposed. Simulation results show that with the proposed scheme, the vertical handoff decisions will be more efficient so that dropping probability can be decreased dramatically.
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- Handoff trigger table for integrated 3G/WLAN networks
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