Hierarchical Neighbor Discovery Scheme for Handover Optimization

Author

Buiati, Fábio ; Villalba, Luis Javier García ; Corujo, Daniel ; Soares, João ; Sargento, Susana ; Aguiar, Rui L.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software Eng. & Artificial Intell., Univ. Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Madrid, Spain

Volume

14

Issue

11

fYear

2010

fDate

11/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1020

Lastpage

1022

Abstract

In the future mobile Internet, one of the most challenging aspects is to discover the available neighbor access networks and it´s characteristics as the user moves. Using the IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) standard, this letter proposes a new neighbor network discovery mechanism, considering a hierarchical view of the network information. Through a NS-2 based simulation, it is shown that the proposed model can significantly improve the mobility user experience.

Keywords

IEEE standards; Internet; mobile computing; mobility management (mobile radio); telecommunication standards; IEEE 802.21 media independent handover standard; handover optimization; hierarchical neighbor discovery scheme; mobile Internet; mobility user experience; neighbor access network; neighbor network discovery mechanism; network information; Delay; Manganese; Media; Security; Servers; Throughput; WiMAX; Heterogeneous networks; IEEE 802.21; media independent handover; mobility;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2010.092310.100711

Filename

5590333