Handoff in Wireless Mobile Networks
Qing-An Zeng, Dharma Prakash Agrawal · 2002
Chapter 1 discusses the handoff, which is the mechanism for transferring an ongoing call from one base station to another as a user moves through the coverage area of a cellular system. Admission control is a related problem, in which the radio resource management system has to decide if a new call arrival, or a request for service or handoff may be allowed into the system. Four conventional handoff schemes in a voice-based, single traffic system are summarized and two handoff schemes for integrated voice and data wireless mobile networks are also covered in detail.