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Mobility management across hybrid wireless networks: Trends and challenges

Published: 01 May 2006 Publication History

Abstract

Future generation wireless networks are envisioned to be a combination of diverse but complementary access technologies. Internetworking these types of networks will provide mobile users with ubiquitous connectivity across a wide range of networking environments. The integration of existing and emerging heterogeneous wireless networks requires the design of intelligent handoff and location management schemes to enable mobile users to switch network access and experience uninterrupted service continuity anywhere, anytime. Real deployment of such mobility strategies remains a significant challenge. In this article, we focus on handoff management. We discuss in detail handoff decision and implementation procedures and present recent handoff techniques that aim at providing mobility over a wide range of access technologies. We also discuss some of the capabilities of mobile terminals that are necessary to implement seamless mobility over hybrid wireless networks. Furthermore, we also present and discuss limitations of recent handoff design architectures and protocols as well as outstanding challenges that still need to be addressed to achieve portable and scalable handoff solutions for continuous connectivity across wireless access networks.

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        cover image Computer Communications
        Computer Communications  Volume 29, Issue 9
        May, 2006
        323 pages

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        Published: 01 May 2006

        Author Tags

        1. 3G
        2. 3GPP
        3. AAA
        4. ACK
        5. ADSL
        6. AR
        7. ASCONF
        8. BS
        9. CA
        10. CAR
        11. CARD
        12. CD
        13. CDMA
        14. CN
        15. CTAR
        16. CTD
        17. CTP
        18. CTR
        19. DAB
        20. DCCP
        21. DECT
        22. DHCP
        23. DMT
        24. DNS
        25. DSP
        26. DSSS
        27. DVB
        28. EDGE
        29. FA
        30. FDD
        31. FHSS
        32. FS
        33. GPRS
        34. GSM
        35. GWFA
        36. HA
        37. HOPOVER
        38. HP
        39. HSCSD
        40. Handoff
        41. Heterogeneous
        42. HiperLAN
        43. IETF
        44. IMT
        45. IP
        46. L2
        47. LSS
        48. MN
        49. MR
        50. MSC
        51. Mobility
        52. Multimode
        53. NACK
        54. NAR
        55. OFDM
        56. Overlay
        57. PSTN
        58. Protocol
        59. QAM
        60. QPSK
        61. QoS
        62. RNC
        63. RRC
        64. SCTP
        65. SDR
        66. SIP
        67. SS
        68. TCP
        69. TDD
        70. TDMA
        71. UMTS
        72. VDC
        73. VoIP
        74. WG
        75. WLAN
        76. Wireless
        77. cSCTP
        78. mSCTP

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