Paper Info
Title
A client-based vertical handoff approach for seamless mobility across heterogeneous wireless networks
Abstract
With the rapid growth of mobile Internet, offering seamless connectivity in different types of wireless networks is an important feature in next generation wireless networks (4G networks). Mobile IP (MIP) is expected to play a key role to handle the movements of mobile nodes (MNs) in 4G networks. However, MIP suffers from long handoff latency since it is designed to support the macromobility of a MN. Therefore, it is necessary to devise a scheme that provides currently deployed networks with backward compatibility and that offers seamless connectivity during MIP handoffs across the heterogeneous wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a client-based vertical handoff system for multi-networks to provide end-users with seamless connectivity across heterogeneous wireless networks. Our proposed system is designed as a common network interface at a client side and provides transparent service to IP-MIP layers regardless of used wireless technologies. With this system, we also present vertical handoff performance over a loosely coupled cdma2000-WLAN experimental test-bed. The experimental results show that our system enables a MN to handoff seamlessly across different types of wireless networks without any modifications to the existing IP-MIP stack and core network. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1002/wcm.v10:9
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile ip
Mobile IP,Wireless network,Wireless,Computer science,Core network,Computer network,Heterogeneous network,Backward compatibility,Handover,Distributed computing,Network interface
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
9
1530-8669
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.42
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yong-sung Kim131028.97
Dong-hee Kwon2909.04
Young-joo Suh347858.07