Service-aware proactive vertical handoff algorithm based on bandwidth requirement prediction  

作　　者：李屹 梅敬青 纪红 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications,Ministry of Education [2]Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

出　　处：《Journal of Harbin Institute of Technology(New Series)》2012年第2期36-42,共7页哈尔滨工业大学学报（英文版）

基　　金：Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China for Young Scholar(Grant No. 61001115);the Key Project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 60832009);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 4102044 );the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China(Grant No. 2012RC0126)

摘　　要：Due to the heterogeneity and versatility of emerging services and applications in wireless networks,it has been a great challenge to improve the system performance with both the awareness of service characteristics and the balance of the traffic between adjacent networks.This paper is committed to solve this problem by introducing a Service-aware Proactive Vertical Handoff(SPVH) algorithm in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks(HWN).A Bandwidth Requirement Prediction Model(BRPM) is illustrated at first,which is adaptive to the system condition variants to forecast traffic requests.Moreover,by adopting a service-aware objective utility function,each user can optimize the vertical handover decisions with awareness of the related supporting networks and service characteristics.Since the decision process is executed with consideration of BRPM predictions,the SPVH algorithm can avoid congestion in HWN through a proactive method.The experiment results show that the proposed SPVH can solidly enhance the system performance in terms of service access ratio,average access delay,system throughput,usage ratio of spectrum resource,and eventually achieve higher network utility.Due to the heterogeneity and versatility of emerging services and applications in wireless networks, it has been a great challenge to improve the system performance with both the awareness of service characteristics and the balance of the traffic between adjacent networks. This paper is committed to solve this problem by intro- ducing a Service-aware Proactive Vertical Handoff （SPVH） algorithm in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks （HWN）. A Bandwidth Requirement Prediction Model （BRPM） is illustrated at first, which is adaptive to the system condition variants to forecast traffic requests. Moreover, by adopting a service-aware objective utility function, each user can optimize the vertical handover decisionswith awareness of the related supporting net-. works and service characteristics. Since the decision process is executed with consideration of BRPM predic- tions, the SPVH algorithm can avoid congestion in HWN through a proactive method. The experiment results show that the proposed SPVH can solidly enhance the system performance in terms of service access ratio, aver- age access delay, system throughput, usage ratio of spectrum resource, and eventually achieve higher network utility.

关 键 词：service-aware heterogeneous wireless networks bandwidth requirement prediction PROACTIVE 

分 类 号：TN929.5[电子电信—通信与信息系统]