Title: Enhanced media independent handover for vertical handover decision in MANET

Authors: Jagan Nath; Rajesh Kumar Aggarwal; Yudhvir Singh

Addresses: Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India ' Department of Computer Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India ' Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University Institute of Engineering and Technology, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak-124001, India

Abstract: In heterogeneous mobile ad hoc network (MANET), seamless connectivity of a mobile node is the important challenge. Due to the mobility of the node, it may loss seamless connection. So, vertical handover techniques were presented to solve this issue. However, communication might get cancelled when handover takes place. This results in call drop and some other issues. So as to overcome these issues, an enhanced media independent handover/IEEE802.21 (EMIH) for vertical handover decision is presented in this paper. In this standard, adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is included to select optimal network for vertical handover. Simulation results show that performance of the proposed approach outperforms that of the existing approach in terms of handover probability, drop, etc.

Keywords: mobile ad hoc network; MANET; vertical handover; optimal network; adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system; ANFIS; received signal strength; RSS; average bit rate; ABR; handover probability.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIE.2020.104650

International Journal of Intelligent Enterprise, 2020 Vol.7 No.1/2/3, pp.122 - 136

Received: 13 Jul 2018
Accepted: 25 Sep 2018
Published online: 27 Jan 2020 *

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