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From cellular decision making to adaptive handoff in heterogeneous wireless networks

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posted on 2023-06-09, 07:56 authored by Daxin Tian, Jingyi Wei, Jianshan Zhou, Zhengguo ShengZhengguo Sheng, Min Chen, Qiang Ni, Victor C M Leung
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.

Funding

Bionic communications and networking for connected vehicles; G2114; Royal Society; IE160920

Mission-Critical and Intelligent Communication Protocols for Future Vehicles Using Power Lines; G2132; EPSRC

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

IEEE Wireless Communications Letters

ISSN

2162-2337

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Issue

1

Volume

7

Page range

2-5

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  • Engineering and Design Publications

Research groups affiliated with

  • Sensor Technology Research Centre Publications

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  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2017-09-15

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-09-26

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2017-09-15

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