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Network Selection with Load Balancing in Wireless Heterogeneous Environment

Manish Sachdeva, Kiran Ahuja

Abstract


Coexistence of various wireless radio access networks (RAN) and ability of mobile terminals to switch between them efficiently makes an optimal selection of serving mobile networks for groups of mobile-clients a major challenge with efficient load balancing. To overcome this problem, more flexible heterogeneous wireless networks (HWN) are required with the advantage of mobility, consistency, ubiquitous provision and improved spectral efficiency. In this paper, network selection with load balancing criteria is proposed in HWN. In heterogeneous environment, WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) and WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) are considered. Network selection based on load balancing is considered by quality of service (QoS) factors such as RSS (Received Signal Strength), bandwidth, BER (Bit Error Rate), throughput and network load. Graphical results show the efficient network selection with load balancing while prevailing required QoS for 100 users.


Keywords


Load balancing, quality of service (QoS), WiMAX, WLAN, HWN

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