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Performance evaluation of a fast MAC handoff scheme using dynamic adjustment of scanning parameters

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Richard W. Pazzi,

Azzedine BoukercheAuthors Info & Claims

MSWiM '09: Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems

Pages 346 - 352

https://doi.org/10.1145/1641804.1641863

Published: 26 October 2009 Publication History

Abstract

The many advantages of IEEE 802.11 wireless local networks(WLANs) such as low cost, high-speed and easiness of maintenance have enabled the rapid growth and wide deployment of real-time applications. However, due to the limited coverage range of the access points in such networks, frequent handoffs are inevitable for the mobile clients to keep network connections during their movement. High latency and packet loss ratio in the handoff process will cause long delay in the network and degrade the quality of time-critical applications, such as VoIP. To minimize the handoff latency is the key issue of achieving seamless real-time communications. In this paper, a fast handoff scheme with dynamic adaption in MAC layer is presented. Both of the waiting for available channels and the number of scanned channels are reduced to enable fast handoff. The simulation results demonstrate that our scheme meets the requirements of real-time applications.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2018.8638239
Almulla MWang YBoukerche AZhang Z(2014)Design of a Fast Location-Based Handoff Scheme for IEEE 802.11 Vehicular NetworksIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology10.1109/TVT.2014.230967763:8(3853-3866)Online publication date: Oct-2014
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Gregoire JRoy CDziong Z(2011)A study of topology formation in 802.11s multiradio wireless mesh networksProceedings of the 2011 IEEE 36th Conference on Local Computer Networks10.1109/LCN.2011.6115568(890-896)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/LCN.2011.6115568

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MSWiM '09: Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems

October 2009

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ISBN:9781605586168

DOI:10.1145/1641804

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Arizona State University, USA

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Hao LNg BQu Y(2018)Self-optimizing Scanning Parameters for Seamless Handover in IEEE 802.11 WLAN2018 IEEE 43rd Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)10.1109/LCN.2018.8638239(335-342)Online publication date: Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN.2018.8638239
Almulla MWang YBoukerche AZhang Z(2014)Design of a Fast Location-Based Handoff Scheme for IEEE 802.11 Vehicular NetworksIEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology10.1109/TVT.2014.230967763:8(3853-3866)Online publication date: Oct-2014
https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2014.2309677
Gregoire JRoy CDziong Z(2011)A study of topology formation in 802.11s multiradio wireless mesh networksProceedings of the 2011 IEEE 36th Conference on Local Computer Networks10.1109/LCN.2011.6115568(890-896)Online publication date: 4-Oct-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/LCN.2011.6115568

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