Research Article
An Access Selection Prototype Based on IEEE 802.21
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_4, author={Bruno Cend\^{o}n and Jes\^{u}s Herrero and Ram\^{o}n Ag\'{y}ero and Arancha Rodr\^{\i}guez and Santiago Albillos and Javier Sainz and Ar\^{a}nzazu Sanz and David G\^{o}mez}, title={An Access Selection Prototype Based on IEEE 802.21}, proceedings={Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems. Second International ICST Conference, MOBILIGHT 2010, Barcelona, Spain, May 10-12, 2010, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={MOBILIGHT}, year={2012}, month={10}, keywords={Service platforms Validation Demonstration Heterogeneous accesses Media Independent Handover Mobility}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_4} }- Bruno Cendón
Jesús Herrero
Ramón Agüero
Arancha Rodríguez
Santiago Albillos
Javier Sainz
Aránzazu Sanz
David Gómez
Year: 2012
An Access Selection Prototype Based on IEEE 802.21
MOBILIGHT
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-16644-0_4
Abstract
The Mobilia project is facing the new challenges appearing in the forthcoming wireless communication scenarios in which one of the distinctive factors is their intrinsic and remarkable heterogeneity. The evolution of the technologies has brought about the possibility of having terminals equipped with different interfaces, and thus the end-user device should be able to select the most suitable from a broad range of access alternatives. This paper presents an illustrative use case, based on a businessperson who presents different communication needs while traveling through heterogeneous networking scenarios. Starting from this point, we derive a set of requirements which should be addressed by Mobilia, following the concept of always best connected. Finally, the paper presents a platform developed so as to evaluate the entities performing the mobility management, handover decision algorithms and architectural protocol extensions, as proposed in the project.