Title
Deployable Application Layer Solution For Seamless Mobility Across Heterogeneous Networks
Abstract
The steady increase in User demand for "all the time, everywhere access" asks for effective and portable solutions for mobility management. Traditionally, global mobility has been addressed by Solutions at the network layer. This is the case of Mobile IP and related approaches. Oil the other hand, this class of Solutions presents several drawbacks. Such as high overhead, poor scalability, inefficiencies at the transport layer, and inability to take into account user preferences and QoS specifications. These drawbacks seriously affect the ability of the systems to provide seamless handovers, that is, transparent management of mobility and continuity of service when changing network connection point. Moreover, most of the proposed solutions cannot deal with vertical handovers, which involve access points equipped with different radio technology (e.g., WLAN and GPRS). In this paper we propose WiOptiMo, an application layer solution for mobility management and seamless handover in heterogeneous multitechnology networks. Working at the application layer, and making use of active and passive cross-layer monitoring, WiOptiMo call overcome most of the drawbacks of previous Solutions. It is all integrated approach that call deal effectively with both rnacro- and micro-mobility. Its design has been driven by the objective of realizing a system which is fully portable, energy and CPU aware. and fully compliant to Current standards. The inclusion of autonomic components in WiOptiMo's design empowers the system with basic self-tuning and self-configuring capabilities. We present a detailed description of the system and discuss its pro and coils. Results from real-world experiments are reported to assess the efficiency and the efficacy of the approach.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
AD HOC & SENSOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
Seamless mobility, cross-layering, optimized horizontal/vertical handovers
Field
DocType
Volume
Mobile IP,Application layer,Mobility management,Computer science,Network layer,Computer network,Quality of service,Service layer,Heterogeneous network,Distributed computing,Scalability
Journal
4
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-2
1551-9899
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.51
23
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Gianni A. Di Caro172151.79
Silvia Giordano2103790.24
Mirko Kulig330.91
Davide Lenzarini451.79
Alessandro Puiatti59111.61
François Schwitter610.51
Salvatore Vanini7255.07