Transport discovery in wireless multi-transport environments

Author

Barnes, Shannon B. ; Woodings, Ryan W. ; Knutson, Charles D.

Author_Institution

Intel Res. & Dev., Hillsboro, OR, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

20-20 March 2003

Firstpage

1328

Abstract

In order to utilize multiple transports, devices must discover common mechanisms for communication, a procedure we call multi-transport discovery. The multi-transport discovery algorithm presented in this paper is a four-phase procedure (transport probing, transport querying, address-to-device mapping, and transport accessibility) that can discover common transports within a multi-transport environment. Transport probing uses a transport-dependent device discovery mechanism to discover an initial link. Transport querying communicates over the probed link to query additional transports. Address-to-device mapping correctly correlates each transport to a remote device. Finally, transport accessibility periodically ascertains link availability during an application session.

Keywords

mobile radio; radio links; transport protocols; address-to-device mapping; common communication devices; common transports; initial link; link availability; multitransport discovery; quality of transport; remote device correlation; transport accessibility; transport discovery; transport probing; transport querying; transport-dependent device discovery mechanism; wireless multitransport environments; Bluetooth; Communications technology; Connectors; Microcomputers; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Optical fiber communication; Personal digital assistants; Transceivers; Universal Serial Bus;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003. WCNC 2003. 2003 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7700-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2003.1200566

Filename

1200566