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This study focuses on the problem of handoff minimization for a set of users moving in a wireless network. This problem is analyzed by considering two cases for the user’s movement under access point capacity constraints: 1) all users move together, and 2) each user can have their chosen path within the network. In the first case, we propose an optimal competitive ratio algorithm for the problem....