— Next-generation mobile communication systems will provide “always best connected” services to mobile users via cellular networks that provide wide area coverage for global ...
How to keep the probability of hand-off drops within a prespecified limit is a very important Quality-of-Service (QoS) issue in cellular networks because mobile users should be abl...
—In cellular systems, a handoff process is defined to transfer an active call of an MS from one cell to another in order to provide a seamless service to this MS. Generally, a h...
The problem of handoffs in cellular networks is compounded in a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite-based cellular network due to the relative motion of the satellites with respect to ...
Suresh Kalyanasundaram, Edwin K. P. Chong, Ness B....
—In this paper, we propose an integrated service-based handoff scheme with (ISBQ) and without queue capability (ISB) for the cellular and WLAN integration. The proposed handoff s...