Title
Optimum multi-service access selection over heterogeneous wireless networks
Date Issued
01 March 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Díez L.F.
García A.E.
Agüero R.
Muñoz L.
Publisher(s)
Wiley Blackwell
Abstract
This paper proposes a methodology to analyse connectivity over highly heterogeneous wireless networks. We consider a scenario comprising a large number of access elements and end users, who move and initiate different services according to some patterns. The framework that has been implemented takes periodic snapshots, each of them used to pose a different optimization problem. We take into account the intention of end users to have a connection (those with an active service), disregarding idle users, as well as the outcome of the previous problems (for instance, the base station a particular user was connected to). The feasibility of the methodology proposed in this work is assessed with a scenario over which we study different access selection strategies including the following criteria: price of resources, service affinity towards particular technologies as well as the willingness to reduce the number of handovers. The results validate the proposed methodology and highlight the impact that an appropriate design of the access selection strategy may have.
Start page
328
End page
338
Volume
27
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería de sistemas y comunicaciones
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84959565746
ISSN of the container
21615748
Conference
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies
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