Abstract
With the ever evolving mobile communication technology, achieving a high quality seamless mobility
access across mobile networks is the present challenge to research and development engineers.
Existing algorithms are used to make handover while a mobile station is roaming between cells.
Such algorithms have some handover instability due to method of making handover decision.
This paper proposes an enhanced handover algorithm that substantially reduces the handover
redundancy in vertical and horizontal handovers. Also, it enables users to select the most
appropriate target network technology based on their preferences even in the worst case where
the mobile station roams between cell boundaries, and has high ability to have efficient
performance in the critical area full of interferences. The proposed algorithm uses
additional quality of service criteria, such as cost, delay, available bandwidth
and network condition with two handover thresholds to achieve a better seamless
handover process. After developing and testing this algorithm, the simulation results
show a major reduction in the redundant handover, so high accuracy of horizontal and
vertical handovers obtained. Moreover, the signal strength is kept at a level higher than
the threshold during the whole simulation period, while maintaining low delay and connection
cost compared to other two algorithms in both scenarios.
Citation
ID:
82298
Ref Key:
n2014enhancedadvances