Paper Info
Title
Location-based handover in cellular IEEE 802.11 networks for Factory Automation.
Abstract
The use of wireless technologies in Factory Automation is attractive due to several advantages (mobility, cost, etc.); however, to satisfy the requirements of industrial applications, they have to be improved in terms of real-time performance. Handover is a particular weakness in cellular wireless systems, e. g., in IEEE 802.11, since it may introduce delay beyond acceptable bounds. The project "(flex)WARE - Flexible Wireless Automation in Real-Time Environments" aims at implementing such an infrastructure based on IEEE 802.11. To enhance overall system performance, it offers a localisation service. In this paper we present the (flex)WARE handover mechanism which exploits localisation to reduce the discovery phase. A performance evaluation, based on simulation and empirical measurements, shows that the mechanism results in a seamless handover for a class of industrial applications.(1)
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ETFA.2010.5641296
ETFA
Keywords
Field
DocType
factory automation,mobile computing,wireless LAN,cellular IEEE 802.11 network,factory automation,flexWARE,flexible wireless automation,location based handover,real time environments,wireless technologies
Mobile computing,Synchronization,Wireless,IEEE 802.11,Computer network,Real-time computing,Exploit,Automation,Engineering,Empirical measure,Handover
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1946-0740
4
0.49
References 
Authors
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukasz Wisniewski1186.87
Henning Trsek2437.49
Ivan Dominguez-Jaimes340.49
Anetta Nagy4142.48
Reinhard Exel5333.73
Nikolaus Kerö6246.65