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Application-Aware Fast Handover for Multimedia Streaming Service in Wireless LAN  

Park, Jong-Tae (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부 정보통신망 신기술 연구실)
Nah, Jae-Wook (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부 정보통신망 신기술 연구실)
Yun, Sung-Hwa (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부 정보통신망 신기술 연구실)
Oh, Kyung-Yoon (경북대학교 전자전기컴퓨터학부 정보통신망 신기술 연구실)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.33, no.11B, 2008 , pp. 968-980 More about this Journal
Abstract
Providing handover with guaranteed QoS for real-time multimedia service such as VoIP, video/audio streaming, and video conferencing in wireless LAN is a challenging task. In this paper, we present efficient layer 2 handover mechanism in wireless LAN, which can provide fast handover with guaranteed QoS for real-time multimedia service. To this end, the scanning period and the number of channels per scanning for handover are dynamically adapted to the type of applications and wireless networking environment, so that both the degradation of application service quality and signaling overhead are minimized simultaneously. The performance of the proposed mechanism is verified by the simulation. The simulation results show that the proposed mechanism guarantess QoS of each multimedia application with minimal power consumption.
Keywords
Application-Aware Handover; Wireless LAN Handover; Handover Latency Minimization; Cross-Layer Optimization;
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