Towards a Universal Approach for Evaluation of Handover Algorithms

Abstract

Increasing complexity of the modern wireless networks forces researchers to use more sophisticated schemes for handover procedure. Performance evaluation of the schemes is one of the most important tasks, which must be resolved for the sake of proper selection of the decision-scheme. Known evaluation approaches were analyzed and verified, modular method for the evaluation of handover schemes and strategies was proposed. The proposed approach exploits the classification of evaluation criteria by field of application on sets (e.g. Handover, Quality of Service, Device). Hence, this allows us to retrieve individual non-distorted evaluation scores for each of the sets, that may be further aggregated. Moreover, the evaluation procedure is significantly simplified in comparison with existing methods. The superiority of the proposed evaluation method was shown through a case study.