A Profile-Based Network Selection with MIH Information Service

Abstract

This work provides a user profile based network selection algorithm with the assistance of the IEEE 802.21 MIH (Media Independent Handover) information service. In this research, a user profile system is designed to records the user’s QoS requirements. The MIH information service provides network information such as MAC address and channel information for network selection. Besides, a rule-based network selection algorithm is proposed to integrate the user profiles and the information service to select a suitable access network. The proposed network selection algorithm is evaluated in a WiFi VoIP service environment by computer simulations. The simulation result shows that the proposed scheme performance better than the traditional RSS (Received Signal Strength) selection mechanism.