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Design of a Cross-Layer Handover Scheme for Data Transmission

IEEE 802.11-based wireless local area networks (WLANs) have been set up in many public places in last few years. It provides convenient network connectivity to mobile nodes (MNs) and allows users moving from one wireless network to another. With mobility protocol support, such as Mobile IPv6 (MIPv6), people can roam across wireless IP subnets without loss of network-layer connectivity. However, the handover latency may make users feel uncomfortable in MIPv6. To support seamless handover, an enhanced MIPv6 scheme, Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6 (FMIPv6)[13], was been proposed. In order to further reduce the handover latency, integrating the lower layer procedure with the upper layer procedure is necessary. Unfortunately, when integrating the IEEE 802.11-based standard with FMIPv6, FMIPv6 always fails to perform predictive handover procedure. This may make the handover procedure result in reactive handover. It is because of the protocol nature of IEEE 802.11 and the weak relation between IEEE 802.11 and FMIPv6. Furthermore, a MN can¡¦t receive packets destined to it when it sends the Fast Binding Update (FBU) to the original access router (OAR). This would cause unnecessary packet loss and make the redictive
handover have more packet loss then reactive. Those issues will cause quality of services degradation and make real-time applications unreachable. In this dissertation, a low-latency MIPv6 handover scheme will be proposed. It is a FMIPv6-based scheme
which is assisted by an active-scan link layer scheme. It has the advantage of FMIPv6 and can reduce unnecessary packet loss when the handover occurs. Also, with the assistance of the active scheme, it can avoid the longest phase that IEEE 802.11 will
enter, and can lower the handover latency.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0914107-143545
Date14 September 2007
CreatorsHsia, Ming-chun
ContributorsKuang-Chih Huang, Chun-Hung Richard Lin, Hsiao-Kunag Wu, WEN-SHYONG HSIEH, Rung-Hung Gau, Jain-Shing Liu, Cheng-Fu Chou
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0914107-143545
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