New vertical handover method to optimize utilization of wireless local area network in high-speed environment

• Main Authors: Yew, H. T., Supriyanto, E., Satria, M. H., Hau, Y. W.
• Format: Article
• Published: Public Library of Science 2016
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/71940/; https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84994655354&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0165888&partnerID=40&md5=c6998ee580ef675090d1050a64e1f6c4
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

In heterogeneous wireless networks, wireless local area network (WLAN) is highly preferred by mobile terminals (MTs) owing to its high transmission bandwidth and low access cost. However, in high-speed environment, handover from a cellular network to a WLAN cell will lead to a high number of handove...