Interface Management in Wireless Hetrogeneous Enviornment – A Survey

Today, mobile terminals are equipped with multi-channel and multiple access interfaces for any kind of applications (or services). The combination of these access technologies needs an intelligent control to interface the best channel, interface/ access or link for best services. The interface management system manages the same environment of different nodes or networks equipped with the different resources. In interface management, an arrangement is used to assign channels to interfaces in the multi-channel multi-interface environment. The effective use of multiple channels is the main function of interface management when the channels per node are lesser than interfaces. Many strategies have been proposed in the literature based on different environment and different attributes. In this paper, we survey and discuss diverse approaches. After analyzing these techniques and identified their advantages and limitations, it is recommended that artificial intelligence could be a promising direction for research work in this area.