21stAnnual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'96) Providing seamless communication in mobile wireless networks Minneapolis, Minnesota October 31-November 16 ISBN: 0-8186-7617-5
This paper presents a technique to provide seamless communication in mobile wireless networks. The motivation behind this study is to find a cost effective solution for minimizing the impact of active hand-offs (hand-offs during an active connection) on connection throughput. Existing solutions either provide total guarantee for seamless communication, incurring heavy network bandwidth usage (multicast based approach), or do not provide any guarantee for seamless communication (unicast based approach). Some other solutions are tuned to give good performance for specific protocols (e.g., fast-retransmit approach). This paper proposes a novel staggered multicast approach which provides a probablistic guarantee for seamless communication independent of the communication protocol used. We present experimental results of performance improvements achieved by our scheme, for data transfer using TCP over a wireless network in the presence of active handoffs. The conclusions however, are generic in that they apply to protocols other than TCP.
Index Terms:
data communication; seamless communication; mobile wireless networks; active hand-offs; active connection; connection throughput; network bandwidth usage; multicast based approach; unicast based approach; performance; fast-retransmit approach; staggered multicast approach; probablistic guarantee; communication protocol; experimental results; data transfer; TCP; wireless network
Citation:
B.S. Bakshi, P. Krishna, D.K. Pradhan, N.H. Vaidya, "Providing seamless communication in mobile wireless networks," lcn, pp.535, 21stAnnual IEEE International Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN'96), 1996 Usage of this product signifies your acceptance of the Terms of Use. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||