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Mobile Cellular Systems - Alak Roy

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• Horizontal handoff<br />

Types of Handoff<br />

– <strong>Mobile</strong> user is passed between towers of<br />

homogeneous networks<br />

– Example: handoff involving two GSM cells.<br />

• Vertical handoff<br />

– Handoff between towers of different types of<br />

networks.<br />

– Handoff in heterogeneous networks. More complex<br />

compared to Horizontal handoff.<br />

– Example: handoff from one GSM based cell to one<br />

WCDMA-based cell .<br />

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