FBMIS: A Fuzzy-Based Multi-interface System for Cellular and Ad Hoc Networks

Abstract

Several solutions have been proposed for improving the Quality of Service (QoS) in wireless cellular networks, such as Call Admission Control (CAC) and handover strategies. However, none of them considers the usage of different interfaces for different conditions. In this work, apart from using only Base Stations (BSs) as an important device of cellular networks, we propose a multi-interface approach in order to avoid BS overloads and improve the QoS of wireless communications. We propose a system, where each node is equipped with two interfaces: the traditional cellular network interface and Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANET) interface. The main difficulty for this system is how to choose the right interface in order to guarantee a minimal usage of network resources and at the same time keeping the communication performance in a satisfactory level. For this purpose, in this paper we propose a Fuzzy-Based Multi-Interface System (FBMIS), where each node is able to switch from cellular to Ad hoc and vice versa. We consider three input parameters and one output parameter. From the simulation results, our system shows a good performance.