Title: Hierarchy-based knapsack approach for network selection in HetNets

Authors: Hima Bindu Valiveti; Trinatha Rao Polipalli

Addresses: Department Electronics and Communications, GRIET, Hyderabad, Telangana, India ' Department Electronics and Communications, GITAM University, Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Abstract: In order to realise the dynamic network environment of current day wherein the end-users are equipped with various smart mobile devices and technologies, it is necessary to incorporate mechanisms which yield high speed and less end-to-end delay with minimum transition loss. Appropriate selection of the target network will help to resolve the issue to a major extent. The information regarding the next point of attachment is provided by the network to assist the node in taking decisions about altering the base station to suit to the then network situation. In this paper, an intelligent approach is incorporated by ranking the networks available in proximity and ignoring the less compatible ones. This scenario is accomplished between Wi-Fi and WiMax networks by the proposed hierarchical knapsack approach with dynamic programming, helps identifying the optimal scenario to support end-users while selecting a network for the handoff.

Keywords: heterogeneous networks; network selection; hierarchical knapsack.

DOI: 10.1504/IJCAET.2018.094340

International Journal of Computer Aided Engineering and Technology, 2018 Vol.10 No.5, pp.599 - 608

Received: 02 Jun 2016
Accepted: 04 Oct 2016
Published online: 30 Aug 2018 *

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