An Assistive System for Re-association Management in a WLAN Mesh Environment

Author

Fuicu, S. ; Stratulat, B. ; Marcu, M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Politeh. Univ. of Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania

fYear

2009

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

494

Lastpage

499

Abstract

Presently, the IEEE 802.11s task group is defining a set of specifications for a wireless mesh standard based on IEEE 802.11 standard. The mobility management is one of the critical operations of any 802.11 network. In this paper we propose an assistive system that can improve the re-association mechanism which takes place when a mobile device roams in a mesh network. This is an empirical study of our proposed handoff mechanism, based on a fine grain analyze of the TCP behavior in a network enhanced with this assistive system.

Keywords

mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication network topology; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 network; TCP behavior; WLAN mesh environment; distributed assistive system; mobile device; mobility management; re-association management; wireless mesh standard; Environmental management; Mesh networks; Mobile radio mobility management; Routing protocols; Streaming media; Testing; Video on demand; Videoconference; Wireless LAN; Wireless mesh networks; IEEE 802.11; Wireless mesh network; re-association;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, 2009. NGMAST '09. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cardiff, Wales

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3786-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGMAST.2009.60

Filename

5337356