A Survey on Next-Generation Hybrid Wireless Architectures

Abstract

The Wireless communication networks are evolving rapidly. Current scenario demands connectivity anytime, anywhere with bandwidth intensive services such as videos, voice, text etc [3][4]. These are high data rate services and have more QoS requirement. For such situation hybrid network emerged as a promising solution. Hybrid wireless network can be seen as group of individual networks integrated as a single network and mobile nodes present in the network, can connect either via gateway node or directly to other network. This paper discusses various hybrid wireless architectures. A classification of hybrid wireless network based on pricing schemes is also presented.