Seamless handoff scheme for 4G mobile systems based on IP and OFDM

Author

Kim, Namgi ; Choi, Hyeeun ; Yoon, Hyunsoo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon, South Korea

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

26-29 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

3315

Abstract

The goal of 4G mobile systems is to provide enhanced services with high data rates, and integrated and converged services with IP-based networks. In order to satisfy the high data rate requirement and support multimedia efficiently, OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) has been considered for the modulation and multiple access scheme in 4G systems. Therefore, we propose an efficient and practical seamless handoff scheme for 4G mobile systems based on IP and OFDM. The goal of the seamless handoff scheme is to minimize handoff delay in providing a seamless connection. The seamless handoff scheme obtains the physical channel for handoff in a contention-free manner with pre-synchronization and pre-forwarding IP contexts. As a result, it thoroughly decreases physical channel blocking delays as well as IP layer context-switching delays during handoff.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; IP networks; OFDM modulation; delays; minimisation; multi-access systems; synchronisation; 4G mobile systems; IP layer context-switching delays; IP networks; OFDM modulation; converged services; enhanced services; handoff delay minimization; integrated services; multimedia; multiple access scheme; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; physical channel blocking delays; preforwarding; presynchronization; seamless handoff scheme; Access protocols; Communication switching; Computer science; Context; Delay; Fading; Mobile computing; Multimedia systems; OFDM modulation; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8521-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2004.1404677

Filename

1404677