Tian, Daxin, Wei, Jingyi, Zhou, Jianshan, Sheng, Zhengguo, Chen, Min, Ni, Qiang and Leung, Victor C M (2018) From cellular decision making to adaptive handoff in heterogeneous wireless networks. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 7 (1). pp. 2-5. ISSN 2162-2337

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Abstract

Handoff decision making is critical for mobile users to reap potential benefits from heterogeneous wireless networks. This letter proposes a biologically inspired handoff decisionmaking method by mimicking the dynamics which govern the adaptive behavior of an Escherichia coli cell in a time-varying environment.With the goal of guaranteeing the Quality of Service (QoS), we formulate a utility function that covers the demands of a user’s diverse applications and the time-varying network conditions. With this utility function, we map the dynamic heterogeneous environment to a cellular decision-making space, such that the user is induced by a cellular attractor selection mechanism to make distributed and robust handoff decisions. Furthermore, we also present a multi-attribute decision-making network selection algorithm for any user to determine an access network, which is integrated with the proposed bio-inspired decision-making mechanism. Simulation results are supplemented to show that the proposed method can achieve better QoS and fairness when it is compared with conventional methods.

Item Type:	Article
Schools and Departments:	School of Engineering and Informatics > Engineering and Design
Research Centres and Groups:	Sensor Technology Research Centre
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5101 Telecommunication Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
Depositing User:	Zhengguo Sheng
Date Deposited:	15 Sep 2017 15:10
Last Modified:	22 Feb 2018 11:16
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70216

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