Design and performance evaluation of a mobility management protocol for wireless ATM networks

Author

Kaloxylos, Alexandros ; Alexiou, Giannis ; Hadjiefthymiades, Stathes ; Merakos, Lazaros

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ., Greece

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Sep 1998

Firstpage

728

Abstract

The introduction of ATM in wireless CPN environments (WATM) necessitates the design of mobility signaling protocols, since the existing versions of B-ISDN signaling do not support terminal mobility. These protocols can be deployed as overlay solutions that have little or no impact on existing infrastructures (switches, signaling software, etc.). We present a WATM architecture and discuss the design of a mobility management and control protocol (MMC). After presenting what procedures the protocol specifies for the forward handover scenario we provide simulation results related to the performance of the system

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; land mobile radio; packet radio networks; protocols; radio access networks; telecommunication network management; B-ISDN signaling; WAND project; WATM architecture; Wireless ATM Network Demonstrator; forward handover; mobility control protocol; mobility management protocol; mobility signaling protocols; overlay solutions; performance evaluation; protocol design; simulation results; system performance; terminal mobility; wireless ATM networks; wireless CPN environments; Asynchronous transfer mode; B-ISDN; Base stations; Communication networks; Computer architecture; Informatics; Mobile radio mobility management; Signal design; Switches; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1998. The Ninth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4872-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1998.734363

Filename

734363