A Review of Heterogeneous Wireless Network Selection Algorithms

At present, the maritime battlefield is overlapped by a variety of communication networks with different performance to form a heterogeneous wireless network in the maritime battlefield. Any single communication network can not completely guarantee the efficient and reliable transmission of communication services of all communication nodes, and heterogeneous network integration has become an inevitable trend. Network selection is one of the key issues in heterogeneous network integration, which has become a research hotspot of scholars at home and abroad. Based on a brief description of heterogeneous wireless network models, this paper classifies and summarizes network selection algorithms, analyses the advantages and disadvantages of various algorithms, analyses the problems existing in current algorithms, and makes prospects for future development.