Talk 1.1: 9:30AM–10:45AM
| Session Name: | Wireless Networks and Emerging Network Technologies |
| Session Time: | 9:30AM–10:45AM |
| Author Name: | Ahmed H Zahran |
| Author Email: | ahmed.zahran@utoronto.ca |
| Talk Title: | Mobility Modeling in Next-generation Heterogeneous Wireless Networks |
| Slides: | 1-1.pdf |
| Abstract: | The integration of heterogeneous wireless access technologies toward building the next-generation wireless system originates a new networking paradigm that introduces several technical challenges to the system design. Mobility modeling is one of the main design challenges that are greatly affected by the service integration of different networks. Clearly, mobility across heterogeneous networks, commonly known as vertical handoff, is completely dismissed in the current mobility models that are primarily developed for homogeneous cellular systems. Hence, developing new models that satisfy general mobility modeling requirements such as flexibility and analytical tractability, and in the meantime, accommodate the correlation between different mobility parameters in the new system evolve as a crucial requirement for proper system design and performance evaluation. Hence, we present a novel mobility modeling framework that realizes the aforementioned modeling requirements for any integrated heterogeneous systems. The developed models show a great accuracy in estimating different performance metrics. |
| Research Group: | Communications |
| Degree Program: | Ph.D. |
| Author Bio: | Ahmed H. Zahran is a PhD candidate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto. He is working under the supervision of professor Ben Liang. He received his BSc and MSc in Electrical Engineering from Electronics and Electrical Communication Department at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University in 2000 and 2002 respectively. His research interests span different topics in wireless mobile networking such as network architecture, mobility and resource management, and modeling and performance evaluation. He won the best paper award in IFIP Networking 2005 conference. |