Location aware mobility assisted services for heterogeneous wireless technologies

Author

Vegni, Anna Maria ; Esposito, Flavio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Electron., Univ. of Roma Tre, Rome, Italy

fYear

2009

fDate

24-25 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Mobile user tracking and seamless service continuity in heterogeneous network environments represent an issue, especially when users move from outdoor to indoor environments, and vice versa. Mobile terminals with these properties allow providers to enable new services. In this paper, a location aware mobility-assisted technique for both indoor and outdoor environments is presented. The technique provides local positioning service and non-homogeneous connectivity management for UMTS, IEEE 802.11, and GPS networks.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Global Positioning System; indoor radio; mobile computing; wireless LAN; GPS network; IEEE 802.11; UMTS; heterogeneous wireless network technology; indoor environment; local positioning service; location aware mobility assisted service; mobile user tracking; nonhomogeneous connectivity management; outdoor environment; seamless service continuity; 3G mobile communication; Conferences; Global Positioning System; Microwave Theory and Techniques Society; Microwave technology; Mobile radio mobility management; Prototypes; Quality of service; Radiofrequency identification; Wireless sensor networks; Local positioning; heterogeneous wireless networks; mobility; vertical handover;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Sensing, Local Positioning, and RFID, 2009. IMWS 2009. IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop on

Conference_Location

Cavtat

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5060-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5062-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMWS2.2009.5307889

Filename

5307889