Mobile stations localization in a WLAN

Author

Peyrard, Fabrice ; Soutou, Christian ; Mercier, Jean-Jacques

Author_Institution

Equipe d´´Accueil ICARE, IUT-Blagnac, France

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

136

Lastpage

142

Abstract

This paper proposes a localization protocol of mobile stations in a WLAN (wireless local area network). The originality of this protocol is made of two parts (i) we use an object-relational database and (ii) we use a semaphore channel devoted to localize mobile stations in access point coverage areas and in virtual coverage areas via near-to-near relays. The database manages the knowledge of the mobile stations related to the access points (roaming) and an historical record of the last moves of the mobile stations. This protocol was written in Java, we also used the JDBC (Java DataBase Connectivity) classes to interoperate with the database

Keywords

Java; land mobile radio; object-oriented databases; protocols; radio tracking; relational databases; wireless LAN; JDBC; Java; Java DataBase Connectivity; WLAN; access point coverage areas; access points; localization protocol; mobile stations localization; near-to-near relays; object-relational database; roaming; semaphore channel; virtual coverage areas; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Databases; Electronic switching systems; Java; Mobile computing; Network topology; Portable computers; Relays; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 2000. LCN 2000. Proceedings. 25th Annual IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0742-1303

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0912-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.2000.891019

Filename

891019