Abstract
Vertical handoff plays an important role to provide seamless connectivity for a mobile user in an overlapped multinetwork environment. On the other hand in order to maintain network stability, efficient management of available radio resource becomes crucial as network operators want high network utilization and maximum profit generation. For vertical handoff management, existing research works considered these user centric vertical handoff decision algorithm and network centric call admission control as two isolated decision mechanisms in heterogeneous wireless environment. In this paper, however, we propose a correlation between vertical handoff decisions and call admission control policies. We have developed a novel vertical handoff decision model using the Markov decision process based vertical handoff decision algorithm by refining the optimality criterion to factor in the probabilistic consequence of the call dropping rates so that mobile-centric vertical handoff decision algorithm and network-centric call admission control can work through a feedback mechanism to maximize respective objectives in synergy.
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