Artificial intelligence techniques in handover decision: a brief re- view

Abstract

The conception of the Internet was born from the Advanced Re- search Projects Agency (ARPA) in 1957, with the collaboration of Leonard Kleinrock et al, developed the ARPANET [1]. Afterwards, several researchers joined the development of the internet and it is conceived as a network of static networks. But, later with the evolution of the network of networks, wireless devices appear and with them the problem of mobility. That is, problems related with the physical change of the network and the problems inherent to the loss of continuity of services. This work focuses on the investigation of mobility in IP networ- ks, mainly in the handover procedure, its stages, protocols and applied techniques of artificial intelligence in decision making. That is why, an analysis is made from the perspective of each of the stages of the handover and it contributes to the classification of the proposals by the OSI model layer and the artificial intelligence techniques are updated in the decision making process. This article is organized as follows, section 2 deals with the handover and its types, later in section 3, the process of acquiring network metrics is illustrated, later in section 4, the decisionmaking algorithms and their classification are mentioned. Then, in section 5, the execution of the handover and some of the most commonly used protocols, in section 6, there is an analysis and discussion of the proposals to show the conclusions in section 7.