6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

Seamless Handover in Integrated WDM/TDM PON and WiMAX Architecture

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158301,
        author={Shiliang Li and Kejie Lu and Yinlong Xu},
        title={Seamless Handover in Integrated WDM/TDM PON and WiMAX Architecture},
        proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
        year={2012},
        month={3},
        keywords={seamless handover ieee 80221 mih fhmipv6 mipv6 wdm/tdm pon wimax},
        doi={10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158301}
    }
    
  • Shiliang Li
    Kejie Lu
    Yinlong Xu
    Year: 2012
    Seamless Handover in Integrated WDM/TDM PON and WiMAX Architecture
    CHINACOM
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/ChinaCom.2011.6158301
Shiliang Li1,*, Kejie Lu2, Yinlong Xu1
  • 1: College of Computer Science, University of Science and Technology of China, China
  • 2: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, USA
*Contact email: sllee85@gmail.com

Abstract

For advanced IP-based cellular network, seamless handover is a fundamental issue in mobility management, and it faces many challenges, include in-order packet delivery, no packet replication, no packet loss, low signaling overhead and minimum handover latency. To address these challenges, Optical Wireless Integration (OWI) appears as a promising technology because optical access technologies provide high bandwidth, low transmission delay and reliability. In this paper, we propose a new mobility management protocol for OWI which takes advantage of several mobility management protocols specified by IETF and services defined by IEEE. The performance analysis and numerical results show that our mobility management protocol can effectively solve all the challenges related to seamless handover and can efficiently improve handover performance in terms of handover latency, signaling overhead, packet loss and packet reordering.