Paper Info
Title
A Seamless Handoff Scheme With Access Point Load Balance For Real-Time Services Support In 802.11 Wireless Lans
Abstract
IEEE 802.11 wirelesses LANs (WLANs) have been rapidly deployed in enterprises, public areas, and households. Voice-over-IP (VoIP) and similar applications are now commonly used in mobile devices over wireless networks. Recent works have improved the quality of service (QoS) offering higher data rates to support various kinds of real-time applications. However, besides the need for higher data rates, seamless handoff and load balancing among APs are key issues that must be addressed in order to continue supporting real-time services across wireless LANs and providing fair services to all users. In this paper, we introduce a novel access point (AP) with two transceivers that improves network efficiency by supporting seamless handoff and traffic load balancing in a wireless network. In our proposed scheme, the novel AP uses the second transceiver to scan and find neighboring STAs in the transmission range and then sends the results to neighboring APs, which compare and analyze whether or not the STA should perform a handoff. The initial results from our simulations show that the novel AP module is more effective than the conventional scheme and a related work in terms of providing a handoff process with low latency and sharing traffic load with neighbor APs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1093/ietcom/e91-b.5.1463
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS
Keywords
Field
DocType
handoff, traffic load, MAC, IEEE 802.11, wireless LANs
Wireless network,IEEE 802.11,Computer science,Load balancing (computing),Quality of service,Computer network,Access control,Latency (engineering),Handover,Distributed computing,Voice over IP
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E91B
5
0916-8516
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thavisak Manodham1202.53
Luis Loyola2416.84
Tetsuya Miki35312.77