Abstract:

Mobility management is one of the key technologies for convergence of heterogeneous networks, and handover management is especially critical to mobility management. Considering the characteristics of future heterogeneous networks, the paper studies relative handover mechanisms, compares and analyzes their performance respectively. The results shows that two hybrid mechanisms have better handover performance, and are deemed as potential schemes in the future.

Key words: convergence of heterogeneous network, handover management, mobility management