ABSTRACT
In the past decade, the remarkably rapid evolution of wireless networks into the regime of the nextgeneration heterogeneous broadband and mobile networks has triggered the emergence of multiradio wireless infrastructures. Infrastructures of these types have been expected to integrate the future internet of people, technologies, content, and clouds into a common digital information society [1]. As a result, the move will eventually witness a harmonious coexistence of many wireless technologies in the same constrained radio resource environment in order to provide ubiquitous and seamless broadband services. To achieve this goal, the multi-radio networking technologies have to be designed in such a way as to ensure that they are self-organized, self-configured, reliable, and robust with a capacity to sustain high traffic volumes and long “online” time [2].
