Simulation of vertical handover between WiFi and WiMax and its performance analysis — An installation perspective

Author

Bhosale, Sahana K. ; Daruwala, R.D.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun. Eng., Bharati Vidyapeeth´´s Coll. of Eng. for Women, Pune, India

fYear

2011

fDate

16-18 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents sequence of various critical steps of installation for an experiment aimed at understanding the simulation of vertical handover between WiFi and Wimax using Network Simulator2 (NS2). IEEE 802.21 standard was used to examine the mobility between Wi-Fi and WiMax networks and to study its behaviour during handover using the generated tracefile. The performance analysis and behaviour of packet loss is done while transferring data flows using constant bit rate (CBR) through UDP during successful vertical handovers. Tracegraph Analyzer is used for this analysis and installation process for the same is discussed. This experiment can be used for academic purpose to help students understand the concept of vertical handover.

Keywords

WiMax; mobility management (mobile radio); wireless LAN; CBR; IEEE 802.21 standard; NS2 simulation; UDP; WiFi network; WiMax network; constant bit rate; data flows; installation perspective; network simulator 2; packet loss; tracegraph analyzer; vertical handover; IEEE 802.11 Standards; IEEE 802.16 Standards; Manganese; Mobile communication; NIST; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; Access Point; Base Station; CBR; Handover; NS2; Packet Loss; Tracegraph; Wifi; Wimax;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

India Conference (INDICON), 2011 Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Hyderabad

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1110-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INDCON.2011.6139431

Filename

6139431