Vertical Handover Decision Algorithm Using Ants’ Colonies for 4G Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Table 2

Simulation results for different number of MTs and with different archive solution table sizes.

Number of MTs	Archive table size		Cost		Bandwidth		Security		Power consumption
			HNE/RSS	ACO	HNE/RSS	ACO	HNE/RSS	ACO	HNE/RSS	ACO
100	10	~	4	3	830	930	6.5	8	0.17	0.05
100	20	~	3.7	2.7	840	940	6.7	8.3	0.12	0.03
100	50	~	3.4	2.5	860	960	7.2	8.4	0.075	0.025
100	100	~	3.1	2.4	880	970	7.4	8.5	0.055	0.02
50	100	~	3.1	2.6	880	955	7.4	8.4	0.055	0.025
20	100	~	3.1	2.7	880	930	7.4	8	0.055	0.035
10	100	~	3.1	2.9	880	915	7.4	7.8	0.055	0.043
50	10	~	4	3.2	830	920	6.5	7.7	0.17	0.07
50	20	~	3.8	3	840	930	6.8	8	0.12	0.042
50	50	~	3.4	2.7	870	950	7.2	8.2	0.075	0.032
20	50	~	3.4	3	860	920	7.1	7.9	0.075	0.042
20	20	~	3.8	3.2	840	910	6.8	7.7	0.12	0.06
20	10	~	4.1	3.5	830	900	6.6	7.5	0.18	0.09
10	10	~	4.1	3.6	825	880	6.6	7.3	0.18	0.11
10	20	~	3.8	3.4	840	890	6.8	7.5	0.12	0.08
10	50	~	3.4	3.1	865	905	7.2	7.7	0.078	0.052