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http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/JKIICE.2009.13.10.2004

Design and Implementation of Location Based Seamless Handover for IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Networks  

Lee, Sung-Han (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Yang, Seung-Chur (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Kim, Jong-Deok (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
Abstract
The characteristic of the backbond for distribution service in WMNs(Wireless Mesh Networks) is that WMNs has multiple links connected to mesh points and dynamic routing protocol such as AODV to establish routing paths. When the terminal is communicating with the service through new AP, mobile nodes can resume communication by setting only the link between new AP and mobile node in the case of existing WLANs, but WMNs needs path establishment process in multihop networks. Our goal in this paper is to support the seamless communication service by eliminating path establishment delay in WMNs. We present the method that eliminates the handover latency by predicting the location of handover using GPS information and making the paths to their destination in advance. We implement mesh nodes using embedded board that contains proposed handover method and evaluate performance of handover latency. Our experiment shows that handover delay time is decreased from 2.47 to 0.05 seconds and data loss rate is decreased from 20~35% in the existing method to 0~10% level.
Keywords
wireless mesh network; location information; seamless handover; handover delay time;
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