Handover Management for Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial Networks

Fabrice Arnal; Riadh Dhaou; Julien Fasson; Julien Bernard; Didier Barvaux; Emmanuel Dubois; Patrick Gélard

Personal Satellite Services. 4th International ICST Conference, PSATS 2012, Bradford, UK, March 22-23, 2012. Revised Selected Papers

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Handover Management for Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial Networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_12,
    author={Fabrice Arnal and Riadh Dhaou and Julien Fasson and Julien Bernard and Didier Barvaux and Emmanuel Dubois and Patrick G\^{e}lard},
    title={Handover Management for Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial Networks},
    proceedings={Personal Satellite Services. 4th International ICST Conference, PSATS 2012, Bradford, UK, March 22-23, 2012. Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={PSATS},
    year={2013},
    month={4},
    keywords={MIH Satellite 3GPP LTE Handover Mobility Test-bed},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_12}
}

Fabrice Arnal
Riadh Dhaou
Julien Fasson
Julien Bernard
Didier Barvaux
Emmanuel Dubois
Patrick Gélard
Year: 2013
Handover Management for Hybrid Satellite/Terrestrial Networks
PSATS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_12

Fabrice Arnal¹^,*, Riadh Dhaou²^,*, Julien Fasson²^,*, Julien Bernard³^,*, Didier Barvaux³^,*, Emmanuel Dubois⁴^,*, Patrick Gélard⁴^,*

1: Thales Alenia Space
2: ENSEEIHT / IRIT (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse)
3: Viveris Technologies
4: Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales

*Contact email: fabrice.arnal@thalesaleniaspace.com, riadh.dhaou@enseeiht.fr, julien.fasson@enseeiht.fr, julien.bernard@toulouse.viveris.com, didier.barvaux@toulouse.viveris.com, emmanuel.dubois@cnes.fr, patrick.gelard@cnes.fr

Abstract

Initially envisaged to support handover between different wireless 802.x network technologies, the IEEE 802.21 standard also appears as the good candidate for handover management in future integrated satellite / terrestrial systems. This paper presents an analysis of how this standard could be implemented in the frame of a realistic scenario and taking into account the current trends in wireless networks and mobility architectures. Our solution is then evaluated by means of emulation over a DVB-RCS representative testbed, and based on an experimental MIH implementation. We finally show that seamless handover can nearly be achieved with very short service outages.

Keywords: MIH Satellite 3GPP LTE Handover Mobility Test-bed

Published: 2013-04-04

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36787-8_12