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

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...