Handoff Management:issues and Challenges

Abstract

Mobility management is very essential component for the next generation Wireless networks. Today research studies are focusing on customer satisfaction and user preferences. As technology will grow further handoff process to handle mobility in heterogeneous networks becomes of utmost importance. In this paper, different set of metrics, and issues of handoff have been discussed. The paper discusses underline concepts of handoff and few algorithms based on various methods such as fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks, etc. This paper also focuses on issues still remaining and need to be focused for building up of an efficient algorithm for handoff management.