An auction approach to group handover with mobility prediction in heterogeneous vehicular networks

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a group handover scheme in heterogeneous vehicular networks, which seeks to not only maximize system throughput but also make sure the load of all candidate access networks are maintained at the target load level. With mobility prediction information, we formulate the handover scheme as a multi-assignment problem, and develop an auction-based method to solve such problem. Through detailed simulations, we have shown that our proposed algorithm performs much better than the conventional scheme based on the SSF method.