Techniques for executing a handoff profile between telecommunications networks

1. At least one machine-readable non-transitory medium comprising a set of instructions that in response to being executed on a computing device cause the computing device to:

while in a communication session between a mobile device and a call server over a cellular communication link,

detect an 802.11 network access point;

register the mobile device with the call server over the 802.11 network access point;

establish a Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

initiate a test Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) stream over the VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

receive data for discrete time intervals of the test RTP stream, the data for each time interval comprising a plurality of VoIP communication link parameter values for the VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

fit a statistical model to the received data, the statistical model associated with a plurality of outcomes based on the VoIP communication link parameter values, the VoIP quality outcomes being either acceptable VoIP audio quality or poor VoIP audio quality;

handoff of the communication session from the cellular communication link to the VoIP communication link when the outcome of the application of the statistical model to the received data is acceptable VoIP audio quality.

2. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , comprising instructions that in response to being executed on the computing device cause the computing device to:

initiate a first timer for a specified duration wherein the registration between the mobile device and the call server over the 802.11 network access point is maintained without interruption prior to establishing a VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server.

3. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 2 , the first timer specified duration set to a minimum of ten seconds.

4. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , the VoIP communication link parameters comprising at least two of: a received signal strength (RSSI) between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, a link speed between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, jitter, latency, the number of dropped packets in a packet data stream, the number of holes in a packet data stream (num_holes), the average hole size, the maximum hole size, and transformed parameters.

5. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , wherein the cellular communication link between the mobile device and the call server comprises one of a circuit switched based cellular link including Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA).

6. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , wherein the cellular communication link between the mobile device and the call server comprises one of a packet based cellular data link including General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), Voice-over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), or High Rate Packet Data (HRPD).

7. The at least one machine-readable non-transitory medium of claim 1 , wherein the statistical model is a logistic regression statistical model.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a processor component;

communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

while in a communication session between a mobile device and a call server over a cellular communication link,

detect an 802.11 network access point;

register the mobile device with the call server over the 802.11 network access point;

establish a Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

initiate a test Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) stream over the VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

receive data for discrete time intervals of the test RTP stream, the data for each time interval comprising a plurality of VoIP communication link parameter values for the VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

fit a statistical model to the received data, the statistical model associated with a plurality of outcomes based on the VoIP communication link parameter values, the VoIP quality outcomes being either acceptable VoIP audio quality or poor VoIP audio quality;

handoff of the communication session from the cellular communication link to the VoIP communication link when the outcome of the application of the statistical model to the received data is acceptable VoIP audio quality.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , the communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

initiate a first timer for a specified duration wherein the registration between the mobile device and the call server over the 802.11 network access point is maintained without interruption prior to establishing a VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , the first timer specified duration set to a minimum of ten seconds.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , the VoIP communication link parameters comprising at least two of: a received signal strength (RSSI) between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, a link speed between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, jitter, latency, the number of dropped packets in a packet data stream, the number of holes in a packet data stream (num_holes), the average hole size, the maximum hole size, and transformed parameters.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the cellular communication link between the mobile device and the call server comprises one of a circuit switched based cellular link including Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA).

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the cellular communication link between the mobile device and the call server comprises one of a packet based cellular data link including General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), Voice-over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), or High Rate Packet Data (HRPD).

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the statistical model is a logistic regression statistical model.

15. A computer implemented method, comprising:

while in a communication session between a mobile device and a call server over a cellular communication link,

detect an 802.11 network access point;

register the mobile device with the call server over the 802.11 network access point;

establish a Voice-over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

initiate a test Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) stream over the VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

receive data for discrete time intervals of the test RTP stream, the data for each time interval comprising a plurality of VoIP communication link parameter values for the VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server;

fit a statistical model to the received data, the statistical model associated with a plurality of outcomes based on the VoIP communication link parameter values, the VoIP quality outcomes being either acceptable VoIP audio quality or poor VoIP audio quality;

handoff of the communication session from the cellular communication link to the VoIP communication link when the outcome of the application of the statistical model to the received data is acceptable VoIP audio quality.

16. The computer implemented method of claim 15 , the communication link handoff (CLH) logic to be executed by the processor component to:

initiate a first timer for a specified duration wherein the registration between the mobile device and the call server over the 802.11 network access point is maintained without interruption prior to establishing a VoIP communication link between the mobile device and the call server.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 16 , the first timer specified duration set to a minimum of ten seconds.

18. The computer implemented method of claim 15 , the VoIP communication link parameters comprising at least two of: a received signal strength (RSSI) between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, a link speed between the hybrid mobile device and an IP access point, jitter, latency, the number of dropped packets in a packet data stream, the number of holes in a packet data stream (num_holes), the average hole size, the maximum hole size, and transformed parameters.

19. The computer implemented method of claim 15 , wherein the cellular communication link between the mobile device and the call server comprises one of a circuit switched based cellular link including Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) or Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA).

20. The computer implemented method of claim 15 , wherein the cellular communication link between the mobile device and the call server comprises one of a packet based cellular data link including General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE), Evolution-Data Optimized (EV-DO), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA), Long-Term Evolution (LTE), Voice-over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE), Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), or High Rate Packet Data (HRPD).

21. The computer implemented method of claim 15 , wherein the statistical model is a logistic regression statistical model.