Depuis les années 90, la technologie réseau et radio mobile a fait l'objet de progrès phénoménaux. Cette avancée technologique s'est faite en parallèle du côté réseau, du côté application et du coté besoin de l’utilisateur. L’évolution rapide de la technologie a eu pour conséquence l’existence d’un environnement hétérogène où la couverture est assurée par la coexistence de plusieurs types de réseaux. Le défi soulevé par cette architecture est de pouvoir naviguer entre plusieurs réseaux d’une façon transparente. La navigation entre réseaux de types différents est connue sous le nom du Handover vertical. Le standard IEEE 802.21 offre une composante appelée Media Independent Handover (MIH) qui contient une fonction capable de transmettre l’état des liens du nœud mobile depuis les couches inférieures vers les couches supérieures. MIH s’intercale entre le niveau 2 et le niveau 3 dans la pile protocolaire. Le rôle principal de MIH est d’aider le nœud mobile à faire un transfert sans coupure entre des réseaux de types différents, mais la logique de sélection est laissée sans implémentation.Dans ce contexte nous avons travaillé sur l’amélioration de la gestion du Handover en proposant une nouvelle architecture appelée VHMC et basée sur MIH offrant des nouvelles méthodes de sélection du réseau destination. La première proposition est un nouvel algorithme nommé Multiple Criteria Selection Algorithm (MCSA) basé sur plusieurs paramètres de qualité du service. Nous avons utilisé le simulateur Network Simulator (NS2) pour évaluer nos propositions en étudiant le nombre de paquets perdus et le temps de latence du Handover durant la période du transfert. La deuxième contribution est un nouveau modèle de sélection du réseau destination basé sur la technique de la logique floue. La base d’inférence, qui est l’élément central de la décision de ce modèle, est déduit grâce à une étude basée sur un nombre élevé de cas de Handover réels collectés des serveurs de la compagnie de télécommunication libanaise "Alfa". Une troisième solution est proposée à travers un nouveau modèle de sélection du réseau destination basé sur la théorie de la régression linéaire multiple. / Since 1990, networking and mobile technologies have made a phenomenal unprecedented progress. This progress has been experienced on multiple fronts in parallel; especially on the application level and the user's needs one. This rapid evolution of the technology imposed a need for the existence of heterogeneous environments where the coverage is ensured throughout the different available networks. The challenge with such architecture would be to provide the user with the ability to navigate through the different available networks in a transparent and seamless fashion. However, the navigation among different types of networks is commonly referred to as vertical Handover. The IEEE 802.21 standard offers a component that is called Media Independent Handover (MIH) which has a function that provides the capability of transmitting the state of the connection of the mobile nodes from the lower to upper layers. This layer would exist between layer 2 and layer 3 within the protocol architecture. The main role of MIH is to help the mobile node transfer without interrupt among different types of networks, but the logic of selection is left without implementation. In this context, we worked on the improvement of the Handover management by proposing a new architecture, called VHMC and based on MIH by offering new methods for selecting the destination network. The first solution is a new algorithm called Multiple Criteria Selection Algorithm (MCSA) based on multiple parameters of the quality of service. We used Network Simulator (NS2) for testing our approach and study the number of lost packets and lost time during Handover. The second solution is a new model for selecting the destination network based on fuzzy logic techniques. The distinctive characteristic of this model lies in the study of genuine Handover records taken from a Lebanese mobile operator called "Alfa". A third proposed solution for network selection is based on multiple linear regression theory.

The main goal of today’s wireless Service Providers (SPs) is to provide optimum and ubiquitous service for roaming users while maximizing the SPs own monetary profits. The fundamental objective is to support such requirements by providing solutions that are adaptive to varying conditions in highly mobile and heterogeneous, as well as dynamically changing wireless network infrastructures. This can only be achieved through well-designed management systems. Most techniques fail to utilize the knowledge gained from previously tested reconfiguration strategies on system and network behaviour. This dissertation presents a novel framework that automates the cooperation among a number of wireless SPs facing the challenge of meeting strict service demands for a large number of mobile users. The proposed work employs a novel policy-based system configuration model to automate the process of adapting new network policies. The proposed framework relies on the assistance of a real-time simulator that runs as a constant background process in order to continuously find optimal policy configurations for the SPs’ networks. To minimize the computational time needed to find these configurations, a modified tabu-search scheme is proposed. An objective is to efficiently explore the space of network configurations in order to find optimal network decisions and provide a service performance that adheres to contracted service level agreements. This framework also relies on a distributed Quality of Service (QoS) monitoring scheme. The proposed scheme relies on the efficient identification of candidate QoS monitoring users that can efficiently submit QoS related measurements on behalf of their neighbors. These candidate users are chosen according to their devices’ residual power and transmission capabilities and their estimated remaining service lifetime. Service monitoring users are then selected from these candidates using a novel user-to-user semantic similarity matching algorithm. This step ensures that the monitoring users are reporting on behalf of other users that are highly similar to them in terms of their mobility, used services and device profiles. Experimental results demonstrate the significant gains achieved in terms of the reduced traffic overhead and overall consumed users’ devices power while achieving a high monitoring accuracy, adaptation time speedup, base station load balancing, and individual providers’ payoffs.

The aim of this work is to study methods of handover used in WiMAX and WLAN networks, next suggest the posibility of simulation methods for WLAN handover in the simulation environment OPNET Modeler. This work is focused primarily on obtaining the information about neighboring AP and subsequent selection of a new AP using such information. The work describes in detail each processes solutions that are used to implement newscanning methods

Nous assistons actuellement à une évolution considérable des communications mobiles. En l’absence d’accord entre les fournisseurs, changer son point d’attachement au réseau signifie encore casser la session en cours et dépendre de l'application pour récupérer les données perdues. De même, il n'est guère possible pour un utilisateur mobile de contrôler la connectivité de son appareil. L'objectif de cette thèse est de présenter le concept d'une structure technologique innovante pour le contrôle autonome des terminaux multimodes dans les environnements sans fil hétérogènes et non fédérés. Son but est de permettre à un terminal auto-configuré de se connecter et de se déplacer de manière transparente à travers des réseaux indépendants, tout en respectant les choix et préférences de son utilisateur. Le schéma obtenu implique des mécanismes d’abstraction et inter-couches. Il tient compte de contraintes basées sur les systèmes sans fil hétérogènes, les architectures autonomes, et permet l’exécution de services génériques comme le choix du réseau d'accès et la gestion de la connectivité et des sessions. Ce schéma s'applique au terminal mobile, avec des mécanismes dissociés de l'infrastructure réseau. La thèse analyse comment les technologies existantes sont améliorées et combinées avec de nouvelles fonctionnalités pour atteindre cet objectif, et donne une description de l'ensemble du concept et de sa mise en œuvre. Un modèle simulé est utilisé pour évaluer la validité de la structure proposée. Diverses applications à des systèmes réels mettant en œuvre les éléments de cette architecture sont présentées, faisant ressortir la généralité et les principaux avantages du concept. / Recent years have witnessed a massive evolution of mobile communications. When no agreement between the network providers exists, changing the attached network still means breaking the session and relying on the application to recover the lost data. In parallel, it is hardly possible for a mobile user to control the connectivity of his terminal. The objective of this thesis is to present the concept of an innovative technological framework for the autonomous control of multimode terminals in heterogeneous and non-federated wireless environments. The aim is to enable a self-configuring terminal to connect and roam seamlessly across independent networks, while respecting its user’s choices and preferences. The target scheme involves abstraction and cross-layer mechanisms. It takes into account constraints based on heterogeneous wireless systems, autonomous architectures and enables generic services such as smart access network selection, connectivity and session management. This scheme applies to the mobile terminal, with mechanisms independent of the network infrastructure. The thesis analyses how existing technologies are enhanced and combined with new features to achieve this objective and gives a description of the overall concept and of its implementation. A simulated model is used to assess the validity of the proposed framework. Diverse applications to real systems that implemented the components of this framework are presented, highlighting the generality and key benefits of the concept.

Within the context of healthcare delivery, human lives are at risk when health care professionals fail to communicate effectively. Audits by The Joint Commission from 1995 to 2005 revealed that 65% of sentinel events occurred as a result of staff miscommunication, prompting the requirement that standardized handoff tools be deployed. Therefore, this project was completed to improve safety in the hospital through implementation of a standardized tool that could enhance the quality of nurse handoff communication. Mohorek & Webb's (2015) linear model of communication, which emphasizes the importance of encoding, transmission, and decoding in the communication process, provided the framework for this project. Participants included 11 registered nurses (RNs) and 14 licensed vocational nurses (LVNs) who completed the pre-and-post intervention survey using the Handover Evaluation Scale. The RNs reflected significant difference in improvement in the perceived quality of handoff following the implementation of standardized handoff tool: pre-test (M = 66.91, SD = 7.27) compared to post-test (M = 80.91, SD = 7.45); t(10) = -5.09, p = 0.000. On the other hand, there was no statistically significant change noted with the LVN group before implementation of standardized handoff tool: pre-test (M = 70.71, SD = 9.72) compared to post- test implementation (M = 73.57, SD = 7.73); t(13) = -1.06, p = 0.309. The findings resulting from this project suggest that there are important differences in provider types when using standardized handoff tools and that more attention to this dynamic is warranted. The social change mandate of protecting the safety of patients is enhanced through effective communication among nurses and was demonstrated in the project.

The 3rd generation partnership program (3GPP) has in recent years started working on integratingnon-terrestrial networks (NTN) into the 5G eco-system. This thesis focuses on the mobility between NTN and TN, which is of great importance if 5G NTN is to provide seamless and limitless connectivity. The target of this thesis is to understand and improve the mobility performance ofnon-terrestrial and terrestrial networks in a heterogeneous scenario. We first analyze data from system-level simulations of rural deployment scenarios when altering the parameters of the A3 measurement event and and then we further evaluate the use of a new NTN-specific distance-based measurement event, the D1 measurement event. We also evaluate the impact of needing toperform GNSS measurements when performing handovers from a terrestrial to a non-terrestrialnetwork. The results show that acquiring GNSS data during the handover procedure significantly increases handover delay time but does not heavily impact overall network performance. Additionally, the results show that by changing the parameters of the A3 measurement event and using the D1measurement event, ping-pong events between NTN-TN and unnecessary handovers to NTN canbe significantly reduced and improve the overall network performance.

Atualmente tem crescido o uso de aparelhos móveis com mais de uma interface de rede para o acesso à Internet, caracterizando em parte as Redes de Próxima Geração (NGN). Outras características da NGN são o acesso sob demanda, no qual o cliente de acesso não seria, necessariamente, usuário de um único provedor e usaria a rede de outros provedores conforme a necessidade, e o gerenciamento de handover (trocas de rede) centrado no usuário, no qual o usuário é quem decide à qual rede vai se conectar e em que momento. Existem algumas implicações relacionadas ao acesso sob demanda que podem melhorar ou piorar a experiência de acesso do usuário e causar certos impactos relacionados à vazão recebida, valor gasto, número de handovers, entre outros. Para o dispositivo móvel gerenciar os handovers, ele precisa obter informações sobre as redes disponíveis como, por exemplo, preço e incentivos, além das informações já obtidas atualmente como força do sinal recebido e identificador do provedor (SSID). Porém, os provedores não possuem um sistema automatizado para fornecer tais informações aos dispositivos móveis. Esta tese apresenta uma avaliação dos impactos das trocas dinâmicas entre provedores Wi-Fi para o usuário móvel, comparando o acesso sob demanda com o acesso tradicional (como é feito atualmente). Como metodologia para esta avaliação, foram realizadas simulações de redes em um cenário com provedores Wi-Fi com perfis diferentes, nas quais foram analisados o número de handovers realizados, a quantidade de bytes recebidos e o valor gasto com o acesso. Nestas simulações o usuário pôde priorizar o custo da conexão, a força do sinal recebido e a carga de trabalho no ponto de acesso para decidir a troca de rede. Esta tese também apresenta uma arquitetura para provimento de informações adicionais sobre as redes disponíveis em um ambiente de acesso sob demanda com gerenciamento de handover centrado no usuário, chamada MYHand (MIH-based and Y-Comm-based Handover Management). Para isso foi utilizada a arquitetura para acesso sob demanda chamada Y-Comm e o padrão IEEE 802.21 (MIH Media Independent Handover). Os resultados desta tese contribuem no gerenciamento das trocas de rede e ubiquidade do acesso à Internet em NGN. A arquitetura MYHand auxiliará o dispositivo móvel a obter mais informações necessárias à decisão de handover, podendo otimizá-la. Com os resultados das simulações, o dispositivo móvel poderá prever o quanto determinada decisão poderá beneficiar a experiência do usuário em termos de qualidade da conexão e custo / Currently, the usage of mobile devices with multiple network interfaces for Internet access has been growing, characterizing partially the Next Generation Networks (NGN). Other features of the NGN are access on demand, in which the customer is not, necessarily, user of a single provider and would use the network of other providers as needed, and the user-centric handover management, in which the user decides which network to connect to and at which time. There are some implications related to access on demand which can improve or worsen the user access experience and cause some impacts related to throughput, paid value, number of handovers, among others. The mobile can manage the handovers but he needs to obtain information about available networks as, for example, price and incentives, in addition to the information already obtained currently as received signal strength and provider identifier (SSID). However, providers do not have an automated system to provide such information to mobile devices. This thesis presents an evaluation of the impacts of dynamic switching between Wi-Fi providers for the mobile user, comparing access on demand to the traditional approach (as currently done). As methodology for this evaluation, simulations were performed in a scenario with Wi-Fi providers with different profiles, in which the number of handovers performed, the amount of received bytes, and the paid value were analyzed. In these simulations the mobile user could prioritize the cost of the connection, the received signal strength, and the load on the access point to decide the handover. This thesis also presents an architecture for additional information provisioning about available networks in an access on demand environment with user-centric handover management, called MYHand (MIH-based and Y-Comm-based Handover Management). For this purpose, an architecture for access on demand called Y-Comm and the IEEE 802.21 standard (MIH Media Independent Handover) were used. The results of this thesis contribute to the handover management and ubiquity of Internet access in NGN. The MYHand architecture will assist the mobile device to obtain more information, necessary to the handover decision, optimizing it. With the results of the simulations, the mobile device can predict how much a particular decision may benefit the user experience in terms of connection quality and cost

Em NGN (Next Generation Networks), os usuários podem se conectar em diferentes tecnologias de rede e desejam, além de uma comunicação transparente, novos serviços personalizados. Neste sentido, este trabalho explora informações de contexto em NGN. O principal objetivo é capturar as informações de contexto envolvidas no momento da utilização da rede sem fio, na escolha do novo ponto de acesso e no procedimento do handover. Este contexto capturado é aplicado para serviços cientes de contexto. A proposta é validada por meio de dois cenários, o primeiro é um mashup que exibe as redes sem fio disponíveis de um determinado local e o segundo um protótipo gerenciador de conexões para atender as preferências do usuário. Adicionalmente, são realizadas duas avaliações do impacto do uso de contexto em handovers. Para tanto, foi implantado um testbed NGN com o protocolo Mobile IP / In the NGN (Next Generation Networks) users can connect their Internet devices to different network technologies. In addition to a seamless communication, users desire new and personalized services. In this sense, this thesis exploits the context-aware information in NGN environments. The main propose is to capture the context information about the time involved by the use of wireless link for selecting the target access point and on the handover procedure. This context information is applied to the context-aware services. The propose is validated through two scenarios: the first is a mashup that shows the availability of wireless networks in a particular location, and the second is a prototype of a connection manager to attend user´s preferences. In addition, two evaluations are accomplished on the impact by the use of context information over handovers. Thus, an NGN testbed is deployed with Mobile IP protocol

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:31:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Adriano Almeida Goes.pdf: 1890295 bytes, checksum: 24b4098cee62cc9c7d9d7e7d523ea3c2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-10-30 / This work proposes a methodology for intelligent distribution of traffic between users and cells in a mobile network with adaptive modulation. In this dissertation a new method of handover to enable the proposal for load balancing traffic, serving as support for the planning and design of these networks. An example of this case is the IEEE802.16e adopted as a platform in this work. As developed a simulation platform that contains the requirements necessary to analyze and compare the current method of handover with the proposed method under different topologies. The results show a gain in the effective data rate of the cell 25% of the proposed method of handover for the current method of handover. Index: IEEE802.16e, Load Balance, Handover, mobile WiMAX / Este trabalho prop?e uma metodologia para distribui??o inteligente de usu?rios e tr?fego entre c?lulas de uma rede m?vel com modula??o adaptativa. Para isso foi proposto nesta disserta??o um m?todo de Handover que viabiliza a proposta de balanceamento de tr?fego servindo de apoio para o planejamento e dimensionamento destas redes, Como ? o caso da IEEE802.16e, plataforma utilizada neste trabalho. Foi desenvolvida uma plataforma de simula??o que cont?m os requisitos necess?rios para analisar e comparar o m?todo atual de Handover com o m?todo proposto sob topologias diferentes. Os resultados mostram um ganho efetivo na taxa de dados geral da c?lula de 25% do m?todo de Handover proposto em rela??o a m?todo de Handover atual.

Em NGN (Next Generation Networks), os usuários podem se conectar em diferentes tecnologias de rede e desejam, além de uma comunicação transparente, novos serviços personalizados. Neste sentido, este trabalho explora informações de contexto em NGN. O principal objetivo é capturar as informações de contexto envolvidas no momento da utilização da rede sem fio, na escolha do novo ponto de acesso e no procedimento do handover. Este contexto capturado é aplicado para serviços cientes de contexto. A proposta é validada por meio de dois cenários, o primeiro é um mashup que exibe as redes sem fio disponíveis de um determinado local e o segundo um protótipo gerenciador de conexões para atender as preferências do usuário. Adicionalmente, são realizadas duas avaliações do impacto do uso de contexto em handovers. Para tanto, foi implantado um testbed NGN com o protocolo Mobile IP / In the NGN (Next Generation Networks) users can connect their Internet devices to different network technologies. In addition to a seamless communication, users desire new and personalized services. In this sense, this thesis exploits the context-aware information in NGN environments. The main propose is to capture the context information about the time involved by the use of wireless link for selecting the target access point and on the handover procedure. This context information is applied to the context-aware services. The propose is validated through two scenarios: the first is a mashup that shows the availability of wireless networks in a particular location, and the second is a prototype of a connection manager to attend user´s preferences. In addition, two evaluations are accomplished on the impact by the use of context information over handovers. Thus, an NGN testbed is deployed with Mobile IP protocol