Research Article
Proposal of Heterogeneous Wireless Communication Network with Soft Handover in Application Layer: Feasibility Study Based on Field Trial Results
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/icst.crowncom.2011.245821, author={Suguru Kameda and Hiroshi Oguma and Noboru Izuka and Fumihiro Yamagata and Yasuyoshi Asano and Yoshiharu Yamazaki and Shoichi Tanifuji and Noriharu Suematsu and Tadashi Takagi and Kazuo Tsubouchi}, title={Proposal of Heterogeneous Wireless Communication Network with Soft Handover in Application Layer: Feasibility Study Based on Field Trial Results}, proceedings={6th International ICST Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={CROWNCOM}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Heterogeneous Wireless Communication Networks WLAN MBWA Handover}, doi={10.4108/icst.crowncom.2011.245821} }- Suguru Kameda
Hiroshi Oguma
Noboru Izuka
Fumihiro Yamagata
Yasuyoshi Asano
Yoshiharu Yamazaki
Shoichi Tanifuji
Noriharu Suematsu
Tadashi Takagi
Kazuo Tsubouchi
Year: 2012
Proposal of Heterogeneous Wireless Communication Network with Soft Handover in Application Layer: Feasibility Study Based on Field Trial Results
CROWNCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.4108/icst.crowncom.2011.245821
Abstract
This paper proposes a heterogeneous wireless communication network with soft handover in the application layer. The proposed network requires no upgrades of wireless infrastructure and mobile terminals to evolve the present homogeneous networks to the proposed heterogeneous network. Only installing application programs on the content server side and the mobile terminal side is required. The performance of the proposed network has been evaluated in a field trial using a mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA) air interface with wide coverage and a wireless local area network (WLAN) air interface with high throughput. The field trial results show that the maximum value of the handover outage time is only 170ms. The proposed heterogeneous wireless communication network is promising since both high throughput and wide coverage area are attained by a combination of the proposed handover scheme with the present homogeneous wireless networks.