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Utility aware network selection in small cell

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In fifth generation heterogeneous network, small cell is developed to compensate the growing demand for mobile data services. Due to the smaller size of cell, users have a short duration of connection, however, the user may also have the need of handoff frequently. At the time of handoff, different networks are available with different data rate and different other parameters. So, there is the need of frequent selection for the optimal network. In this paper, a utility-aware optimization algorithm has been proposed for network selection in a heterogeneous environment of Wi-Fi, WiMAX, WLAN, LTE, UMTS, and GPRS network. The weight factor is proposed for modified Jaya algorithm which is calculated by the analytical hierarchical process, standard deviation, and entropy method. Different applications are considered such as video, voice, web browsing and email transfer in which available bandwidth, packet jitter, packet loss, cost per byte are taken as dominant attributes, respectively. According to the dominant factor, different networks are selected for different applications because the requirement of all applications cannot be fulfilled by one network. Finally, the proposed algorithm is compared with multi-attribute decision making algorithms and game theory and accuracy of the proposed algorithm is calculated. The accuracy of proposed algorithm is higher as compared to the other algorithms and at the same time, this algorithm requires less computation which can further reduce the handoff latency and failure probability. Hence, the performance of handoff can be improved by using modified Jaya algorithm.

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Munjal, M., Singh, N.P. Utility aware network selection in small cell. Wireless Netw 25, 2459–2472 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-018-1676-5

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