TL;DR: The performance analysis of the proposed method of vertical handover evinces the perfect network selection that enables a continuous connection for the heterogeneous networks and shows an enhanced throughput and latency in handover compared to the other methods like TOPSIS and SAW.
Abstract: The seamless communication between the devices of the heterogeneous wireless networks still remains as a challenge due to the delay incurred, the cost difference and the bandwidth variations.so it becomes necessary for a perfect management of the hand over and the selection of the network to provide a continuous conveyance in the broadcasting or the sharing of the information’s. So the paper initiates an enhanced network selection and a vertical hand over schema that is context aware and based on the user preference utilizing the grey relational analysis integrated with the particle swarm optimization. The performance analysis of the proposed method of vertical handover evinces the perfect network selection that enables a continuous connection for the heterogeneous networks and shows an enhanced throughput and latency in handover compared to the other methods like TOPSIS (technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution) and SAW(simple additive weighting).
TL;DR: MOBIX is a system which leverages on the fact that nodes on the move will meet other nodes who will be able to share conditions of networks they have recently used, and can achieve energy savings of more than 80%.
Abstract: Current devices use a network selection policy that is mostly driven by the physical layer, choosing the point of attachment with the highest Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI). Unfortunately for 802.11 networks, RSSI is not a good indicator of actual network performance as it is normally the bandwidth to the Internet and not the wireless signal conditions which dictates the quality of service a user might experience. Worse, the AP may belong to a pay service which renders it inaccessible to the user. MOBIX is a system which leverages on the fact that nodes on the move will meet other nodes who will be able to share conditions of networks they have recently used. MOBIX exchanges reports with other nodes it encounters using a short-range communication channel such as Bluetooth. Our simulation results show that exchanging throughput information resulted in 70% success rate over relying on RSSI measurements alone. Using our power measurements, we show that we can achieve energy savings of more than 80%.