NATIONAL STUDENT RESEARCH CONVENTION A Compendium AU House, 16, Comrade Indrajit Gupta Marg, New Delhi 110002, INDIA Ph. 2323 0059 (6 lines), E-mail :aiu@bol.net.in Web: wwwaiuweb.orgus Hand off Analysis in WLAN GPRS Integrated Network Sajal Saha, Subhasree Choudhury and Anindita Kundu Narula Institute of Technology, West Bengal University of Technology BF-142, Salt Lake, Sector-1, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700 064 Abstract Mobile computing for Personal Communication Service (PCS) offers mobile users anytime, anywhere bi-directional reliable access to the Intemet. Now a days, varieties of networks with varieties of objectives are coexisting under the heterogeneous environment. From the user point of view, it is essential to have ubiquitous mode of network accessibility and global mobility toll the users without bothering about the types and segments of network they belong to. However, global mobility which is an important objective, is never really achieved, At the same time, new application demands more bandwidth and lower costs. We have proposed an overlay based architecture of heterogeneous networks comprising GPRS and WLAN network that enables user with higher coverage and higher bandwidth Integrated WLAN-GPRS network is connected through a cross-over switch which is a high speed intelligent manageable switch that performs the channel assignment to mobile node and control the user mobility from one network to another network. Vertical hand-off (handoff from one network to another heterogeneous network) is performed through the GTP tunnel. Itis already proven theoretically that ifthe hand-off latency is within 2997ms then call drop may be avoided. We simulate the architecture in NS-2 simulator. Simulation performance is needed to be analyzed under various situations (increased number of traffic, packet size) and comparing the results with the theoretical results which can avoid the call drop.