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Battery Efficient Wireless Network Discovery Scheme for Inter-System Handover in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks  

Lee Bong-Ju (한국전자통신연구원 이동통신연구단)
Kim Won-Ik (한국전자통신연구원 이동통신연구단)
Song Pyeong-Jung (한국전자통신연구원 이동통신연구단)
Shin Yeon-Seung (한국전자통신연구원 이동통신연구단)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.31, no.2A, 2006 , pp. 128-137 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a wireless network discovery scheme which support effective device power management by employing battery efficient network scanning procedure. Multi-mode terminals need to discover other wireless systems, above all, to execute an inter-system handover in the environment of heterogeneous wireless networks. The existing methods introduced in some recent research reports have certain shortcomings, such as battery power consumption increased by frequent modem activation, or the multi-mode terminal's inability to promptly discover wireless system. We Propose a scheme in which multi-mode terminals more quickly and accurately discover other wireless systems than previous schemes, while consuming minimum power. It also proves that the scheme has better performance by comparing it with the existing schemes.
Keywords
Network Discovery; Network Scanning; Multi-mode Terminal; Inter-System Handover; Heterogeneous Wireless Networks; LCS;
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