The mobile ATM LAN emulation protocol

Author

Patel, Baiju ; Naghshinch, M.

Author_Institution

Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

12-16 Oct 1997

Firstpage

416

Abstract

We propose the mobile ATM LAN emulation protocol (MLE) which is an extension of the ATM Forum LAN emulation (LE) protocol. MLE provides a location independent access and allows user to move around within wired or wireless ATM LAN without interruption to the LE services. The proposed protocol takes advantage of the fact that VCCs used for LAN emulation are established and relinquished on demand. The MLE protocol terminates all the connections from the host at the beginning of a handoff and re-establishes them either at the end of the handoff or on demand. Thus, to the ATM LAN emulation network, a handoff appears identical to the termination of the LE connections due to the lack of traffic. The MLE protocol requires minimal extensions to the ATM LAN emulation protocol

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; land mobile radio; local area networks; protocols; ATM Forum; ATM LAN emulation network; MLE protocol; VCC; handoff; location independent access; mobile ATM LAN emulation protocol; wired ATM LAN; wireless ATM LAN; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; LAN emulation; Local area networks; Maximum likelihood estimation; Spine; Switches; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications Record, 1997. Conference Record., 1997 IEEE 6th International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

ISSN

1091-8442

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3777-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1997.627198

Filename

627198