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An Intelligent Particle Swarm Optimization for Fuzzy Based Heterogeneous Radio Access Technology (RAT) Selection

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  • J. Preethi

    (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore, India)

  • S. Palaniswami

    (Government College of Engineering, Bargur, India)

Abstract

The future wireless networks are heterogeneous in nature where different Radio Access Technologies (RATs) coexist in the same coverage area. The user terminal has to select the best access technology among Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN), and Universal Mobile Telecommunication Systems (UMTS) etc. at its current location. Thus, selecting the appropriate RAT and cell becomes a complex problem in heterogeneous network due to number of variables involved in the selection process. The main objective of this work in the heterogeneous networks is to maximize the percentage of satisfied users who are assigned to the networks. Henceforth, this paper presents an innovative mechanism for the selection of heterogeneous networks such as WWAN and WLAN. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated using 1000 datasets. From the simulation results, it is found that the proposed algorithm gives highest probability for mobile user satisfaction than the existing methods.

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  • J. Preethi & S. Palaniswami, 2012. "An Intelligent Particle Swarm Optimization for Fuzzy Based Heterogeneous Radio Access Technology (RAT) Selection," International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies (IJIIT), IGI Global, vol. 8(4), pages 23-42, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jiit00:v:8:y:2012:i:4:p:23-42
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