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Int. J. Communications, Network and System Sciences, 2011, 4, 495-506 doi:10.4236/ijcns.2011.48061 Published Online August 2011 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijcns) Dynamic Handoff Priority Adjustment Based on Mobility-Awareness in Multimedia Cellular Networks 1 2 Chow-Sing Lin , Pin-Jing Huang 1 Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National University of Tainan, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei 2Department of Information Management, Southern Taiwan University, Tainan, Taiwan, Chinese Taipei E-mail : mikelin@.tw, Freda_huang@ Received June 1, 2011; revised July 6, 2011; accepted July 15, 2011 Abstract In multimedia cellular networks, when a Mobile Host requests multimedia services, it may experience hand- offs to several cells before the request is completely served. If a target cell cannot provide adequate band- width for a service request, instead of directly dropping the request, the MH is put into the handoff queue and hopefully the requested bandwidth can be satisfied by later released bandwidth. Obviously, it is important to properly assign priorities for queued handoff of MHs based on their inborn dynamics to avoid unnecessary dropping. In this paper, we present a dynamic handoff priority adjustment scheme which applied a handoff queuing scheme to dynamically adjust handoff priority based on receiving signal strength, service class, and mobility of Mobile Hosts. In addition, idle bandwidth reserved by inactive MHs is reallocated to urgent handoff MHs to reduce the call dropping probability. The goal of the proposed dynamic handoff priority ad- justment scheme is to further reduce call dropping pr obability while still maintaining high bandwidth utiliza- tion and accepta