Development of an IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Information Service

This paper provides a view on the developing process of the Media Independent Information Service, later referred as MIIS, described in the IEEE 802.21 standard, which has the main functionality of providing the mobile terminal information about all access points in his coverage area. Our approach is towards the management of the entire mechanism of delivering data to the device, that is realized at a central location. The first chapter describes related work on IEEE 802.21 standard, and it-s linkage with the MIIS entity. The following chapters present the general architecture of the system, important aspects of implementation, the used technologies and also a set of research directions. The final section presents a performance evaluation, giving us a clue about the system´s real functioning and serving capabilities.