TY - GEN
T1 - An energy efficient vertical handover decision algorithm
AU - Pons, Xavier
AU - Mesodiakaki, Agapi
AU - Gruet, Christophe
AU - Naviner, Lirida
AU - Adelantado, Ferran
AU - Alonso, Luis
AU - Verikoukis, Christos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/3/18
Y1 - 2014/3/18
N2 - As wireless communications evolve towards heterogeneous networks, mobile terminals have been enabled to handover seamlessly from one network to another. At the same time, the continuous increase in the terminal power consumption has resulted in an ever-decreasing battery lifetime. To that end, the network selection is expected to play a key role on how to minimize the energy consumption, and thus to extend the terminal lifetime. Hitherto, terminals select the network that provides the highest received power. However, it has been proved that this solution does not provide the highest energy efficiency. Thus, this paper proposes an energy efficient vertical handover algorithm that selects the most energy efficient network that minimizes the uplink power consumption. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated through extensive simulations and it is shown to achieve high energy efficiency gains compared to the conventional approach.
AB - As wireless communications evolve towards heterogeneous networks, mobile terminals have been enabled to handover seamlessly from one network to another. At the same time, the continuous increase in the terminal power consumption has resulted in an ever-decreasing battery lifetime. To that end, the network selection is expected to play a key role on how to minimize the energy consumption, and thus to extend the terminal lifetime. Hitherto, terminals select the network that provides the highest received power. However, it has been proved that this solution does not provide the highest energy efficiency. Thus, this paper proposes an energy efficient vertical handover algorithm that selects the most energy efficient network that minimizes the uplink power consumption. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated through extensive simulations and it is shown to achieve high energy efficiency gains compared to the conventional approach.
KW - Energy efficiency
KW - Handover decision algorithm
KW - LTE
KW - Vertical handover
KW - Wi-Fi
U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2014.7063587
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2014.7063587
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946685349
T3 - 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2014
SP - 1145
EP - 1150
BT - 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2014
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2014
Y2 - 8 December 2014 through 12 December 2014
ER -