A Study of Handover Strategies for Mobile Multiaccess Ambient Networks

In a network environment where multi-radio access becomes the norm, choosing the most appropriate network interface and base station becomes essential for distributing radio resources optimally and fairly, and for allowing each node to take full advantage of its multiaccess capability. This paper discusses the issues arising when mobile nodes are equipped with three different radio access technologies and have contradicting goals to the network provider in a high density scenario. We simulated three different decision strategies aimed to resolve such contradicting goals and compared those results to the optimal solution attained from a linear programming model.