International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology (IRJET) e-ISSN: 2395-0056 Volume: 04 Issue: 12 | Dec-2017 www.irjet.net p-ISSN: 2395-0072 © 2017, IRJET | Impact Factor value: 6.171 | ISO 9001:2008 Certified Journal | Page 1334 User Preference Based Network Selection in Wireless Networks Vrushali U. Uttarwar 1 , Dipali M. Patil 2 1,2 Department of Computer Engineering, D.Y. Patil College of Engineering, Akurdi, Pune, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract - An Wireless networking is becoming an increasingly important and popular way of providing global information access to users on the move. One of the main challenges for seamless mobility is the availability of simple and robust vertical handoff algorithms, which allow a mobile node to roam among heterogeneous wireless networks. The objective is to determine the conditions under which handoff should be performed. Nowadays mobile handsets are capable of having different network interfaces. There are multiple criteria for handoff in NGWN. Handoff decision algorithm decides the optimal target network by considering a set of decision parameters including available bandwidth, velocity, throughput, monetary cost, security and user preference. One of the technical challenges with this integration and interfacing of heterogeneous wireless networks is handoff decision that is used to choose the optimal network depending upon the type and service requirements demanded by the user’s application. Heterogeneous wireless network will be dominant in next generation wireless networks (NGWN). Increasing user demands and the growing interest of service providers to offer diverse applications have motivated the integration of heterogeneous wireless networks which enable the users to move seamlessly across different types of networks and to enjoy anytime, anywhere services. Key Words: Mobility management, Next generation wireless networks, Media independent handoff, Vertical handoff management. 1. INTRODUCTION There has been tremendous changes taking place in concern to network landscape, recently most of the homogeneous networks are changed to heterogeneous networks. The reason behind this is, due to the innovation of multimodal terminal devices that has the ability to support more than one type of network with multiple interface capability. Handoff is the method by which a mobile node can move logically within the network environment without any service interruptions and keeps its session active while on the move Handoff execution is initiated by the selection of access network only when the strength of signal from the base station goes down or the base station is unable to provide service as per the users requirements. Crowded scenes have been more frequent in the real world because of increase of population and variety of human activities. Due to increase in popularity a crowded scenes analysis is an area of interest to scientists in the recent times. It brings out massive challenges to public management, security or safety. In the last decade, automated scene analysis has already pulled much research attention in the computer vision community. In case of crowded scenes, the problems cannot be handled well due to the large number of individual participation. These individual not only cause the detection and tracking fail, but also greatly increases computational complexity. Under such circumstance, crowded scene analysis as a unique topic, is specifically addressed. Different types of Next generation wireless networks such as GPRS, LTE, WiMAX and WLAN are brought together to form a single wireless network environment the reason behind this is that a single type of network or an homogenous network hardly could satisfy different need of services required by users and diverse applications. Each network has its own ability to support different kinds of application and services with different quality of service requirements [1]. In order to overcome such drawbacks and gain benefit from the diversity of different technologies these next generation wireless networks are brought to form a single network and support such diverse application and maximally satisfy users needs. Selection of the optimal network among available networks is one of the challenging tasks because several criteria’s and parameters involved in it such as service type, network condition, system performance and user preferences for making the decision. Selection mechanisms are of three types those under user control, network control and cooperation of both [1]. Handoff can be classified as vertical and horizontal and further classified on who controls the handoff decision [8]. All these factors make the decision making more complex. A new network selection scheme that explicitly takes into account user preference, available network parameter and quality of service requirements for selecting the optimal network is proposed here. IEEE 802.21 MIH framework is used by the proposed system for creating the heterogeneous network environment, information gathering and handoff initiating. In the proposed system, different parameters are acquired by using different System Access Points ȋSAP’SȌ Services provided by the MIH framework and the Selection