An optimum network selection solution for multihomed hosts using Hopfield Networks

Espi, Jorge and Atkinson, R.C. and Harle, D.A. and Andonovic, Ivan; (2010) An optimum network selection solution for multihomed hosts using Hopfield Networks. In: Ninth International Conference on Networks, 2010. IEEE, pp. 249-254. ISBN 978-1-4244-6083-0 (https://doi.org/10.1109/ICN.2010.47)

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Abstract

This work introduces a Hopfield Neural Network approach to network selection for multihomed hosts which considers a range of relevant network parameters including available radio access technologies and traffic types (VoIP, video streaming, Web browsing and FTP-based). Also proposed is a novel utility function that further improves network selection. Results show that, in terms of QoS, the allocation obtained using proposed algorithm outperforms other two reference allocation schemes under a range of different scenarios.