2nd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks

Research Article

Layer-2 mobility management in hybrid wired/wireless systems

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/QSHINE.2005.28,
        author={ Jidong  Wang and Lichun  Bao },
        title={Layer-2 mobility management in hybrid wired/wireless systems},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={QSHINE},
        year={2005},
        month={12},
        keywords={},
        doi={10.1109/QSHINE.2005.28}
    }
    
  • Jidong Wang
    Lichun Bao
    Year: 2005
    Layer-2 mobility management in hybrid wired/wireless systems
    QSHINE
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/QSHINE.2005.28
Jidong Wang1, Lichun Bao 1
  • 1: Bren Sch. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA

Abstract

In hybrid wired and wireless systems, mobile hosts constantly changes points of attachment to the wired networks, causing frequent disruptions to the ongoing network traffic. An infrastructure supported approach is required to meet the stringent delay and jitter requirements in non-disrupted services. We propose a mobility management scheme, called personal AP, to support seamless roaming. In personal AP systems, the network attachment information, i.e., the association states, of a mobile station is extracted, and handed off from one physical access point to another along with the mobile station, thus eliminating the mobile station from reassociating with new access points. Simulation results show that personal AP can greatly reduce the handoff latencies, and is suitable to support delay-sensitive multimedia applications