Handoff Management for Mobile Agents in High Speed Wireless Networks

This paper presents analytical handoff management for multimedia users in a high speed wireless mobile network. We demonstrate the performance of handoffs with mobility consideration using several metrics including the alteration of states prior to reaching a cell boundary, the speed of mobile terminal, and the distance between a mobile terminal and a cell boundary. We mainly focus on the performance evaluation for the factor of mobility with taking into account the high speed status of a user. Numerical results of the performance analysis and the probability of requiring a handoff are presented.