Research Article
A packet error recovery scheme for vertical handovers mobility management protocols
@ARTICLE{10.4108/trans.ue.1.2.e3, author={Pierre-Ugo Tournoux and Emmanuel Lochin and Henrik Petander and J\^{e}r\~{o}me Lacan}, title={A packet error recovery scheme for vertical handovers mobility management protocols}, journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Ubiquitous Environments}, volume={1}, number={2}, publisher={ICST}, journal_a={UE}, year={2013}, month={10}, keywords={Mobility management protocol, Vertical handover, On-the-fly coding}, doi={10.4108/trans.ue.1.2.e3} }
- Pierre-Ugo Tournoux
Emmanuel Lochin
Henrik Petander
Jérôme Lacan
Year: 2013
A packet error recovery scheme for vertical handovers mobility management protocols
UE
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/trans.ue.1.2.e3
Abstract
Mobile devices are connecting to the Internet through an increasingly heterogeneous network environment. This connectivity via multiple types of wireless networks allows the mobile devices to take advantage of the high speed and the low cost of wireless local area networks and the large coverage of wireless wide area networks. In this context, we propose a new handoff framework for switching seamlessly between the different network technologies by taking advantage of the temporary availability of both the old and the new network technology through the use of an “on the fly” erasure coding method. The goal is to demonstrate that our framework, based on a real implementation of such coding scheme, 1) allows the application to achieve higher goodput rate compared to existing bicasting proposals and other erasure coding schemes; 2) is easy to configure and as a result 3) is a perfect candidate to ensure the reliability of vertical handovers mobility management protocols. In this paper, we present the implementation of such framework and show that our proposal allows to maintain the TCP goodput (with a negligible transmission overhead) while providing in a timely manner a full reliability in challenged conditions.
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