Comparative Investigations on Mobility Protocols for WLAN and UMTS Interworking

Author

Grewal, Vinit ; Sharma, Ajay K.

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. of Technol., Jalandhar

fYear

2009

fDate

6-7 March 2009

Firstpage

770

Lastpage

773

Abstract

This paper investigates different mobility protocols (network layer mobility protocols Mobile IPv4 and Mobile IPv6, the transport layer mobility protocol mSCTP) as an approach to achieve interworking between 3G cellular networks (such as UMTS) and IEEE´s 802.11 wireless LANs (WLANs). A simulative model has been developed using OPNET to support the study. Simulation results supported mSCTP as the best approach for achieving desired interworking.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; IP networks; access protocols; cellular radio; mobility management (mobile radio); wireless LAN; 3G cellular networks; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; OPNET; UMTS interworking; WLAN; mSCTP; mobile IPv4; mobile IPv6; network layer mobility protocols; transport layer mobility protocol; 3G mobile communication; Access protocols; Cellular networks; Computer networks; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Mobile computing; Mobile radio mobility management; Switches; Transport protocols; Wireless LAN; Mobile IPv4; Mobile IPv6; OPNET; UMTS; WLAN; mSCTP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advance Computing Conference, 2009. IACC 2009. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Patiala

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2927-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2928-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IADCC.2009.4809111

Filename

4809111