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IEEE 802.21 is one of the emerged standards designed to build handover between heterogeneous technologies while optimizing session continuity. In this paper we provide a performance evaluation of the vertical handover between WiFi and WiMAX using IEEE802.21 for different traffic flows: VoIP, video streaming and FTP. The performance metrics used for this evaluation include throughput, end-to-end delay and packet loss rate. The performance evaluation is done using the Network Simulator NS2.
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Thaalbi, M., Tabbane, N. (2010). Vertical Handover between WiFi Network and WiMAX Network According to IEEE 802.21 Standard. In: Elleithy, K., Sobh, T., Iskander, M., Kapila, V., Karim, M., Mahmood, A. (eds) Technological Developments in Networking, Education and Automation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9151-2_93
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