Title
Wi-Fi Access Point Roaming: Challenges and Potential Solutions.
Abstract
As functionalities in mobile devices have increased significantly in recent years, they have become primary means for staying connected through emails, instant messaging, voice and video calls. These services rely on mobile networks data connection or Wi-Fi connections which are cheaper and faster. They enable communications while moving from one location to another, but during the process of roaming the connections are predisposed to interruptions as the user gets out of the signal range. The current solution is to have multiple relay/repeater access points, nevertheless, short interruptions cause data integrity corruption and also use additional energy cost on the limited battery. To mitigate these issues, we propose a Wi-Fi roaming algorithm capable of automatically switching between access points while maintaining the data stream's integrity. After implementation and evaluation of the proposed solution, further refinements are introduced such as seamless transitioning from Wi-Fi to mobile data and vice versa.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/NBiS.2015.27
NBiS
Keywords
Field
DocType
Access Points, Data Transmission, Mobile devices, Roaming, Wi-Fi
Telecommunications,Data transmission,Data stream,Computer science,Computer network,Roaming SIM,Data integrity,Mobile device,Repeater,Mobile broadband,Roaming
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2157-0418
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lianyuan Wang100.68
Yuxuan Zhao2162.16
David Olalekan Afolabi351.61
Ka Lok Man48827.99
Hai-Ning Liang519837.97
Dawei Liu6309.79
Yiu Fai Lam700.34
Charles Fleming831.48
Moncef B. Tayahi912.12