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Computer Communications
Volume 29, Issues 13-14, 21 August 2006, Pages 2601-2611
Wirelsess Senson Networks and Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
 
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Location assisted fast vertical handover for UMTS/WLAN overlay networks

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Tom Van LeeuwenCorresponding Author Contact Information, 1, a, E-mail The Corresponding Author, E-mail The Corresponding Author, Ingrid Moermana, E-mail The Corresponding Author and Piet Demeestera, E-mail The Corresponding Author

aGhent University – IBBT – IMEC vzw, Department of Information Technology (INTEC), Gaston Crommenlaan 8 bus 201, B-9050 Gent, Belgium


Available online 10 March 2006.

Abstract

UMTS/WLAN integration offers considerable benefits for the mobile users as well as for the mobile network. As soon as coverage is available, a mobile user should switch seamlessly from the ubiquitous low bandwidth UMTS network to a high bandwidth WLAN. This will improve his quality of service, but also increases capacity in the cellular network. To be able to change between radio access technologies, an inter-RAT handover protocol is needed. If this handover protocol is not fast enough, the vehicular user will penetrate deep into the cell before packets get delivered to the right access point, underutilizing the available bandwidth with a lower overall performance as a result. In this paper, we introduce a new vertical handover protocol which uses location information from the vehicle to predict where and when the handover should occur, thus optimizing user throughput and network performance. We consider its deployment on three UMTS/WLAN integration scenarios.

Keywords: Handover; UMTS; WLAN

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. UMTS/WLAN inter-RAT handover
2.1. Very tight coupling
2.2. Tight coupling
2.3. Loose coupling
3. Location assisted proactive vertical handover
3.1. Introduction
3.2. APACHE protocol
4. Implementation requirements
4.1. Very tight coupling
4.2. Tight coupling
4.3. Loose coupling
5. Results
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
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Corresponding Author Contact InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +32 0 9 33 14975; fax: +32 0 9 33 14899.
1 Research funded by a Ph.D. grant for Tom Van Leeuwen of the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen).

Computer Communications
Volume 29, Issues 13-14, 21 August 2006, Pages 2601-2611
Wirelsess Senson Networks and Wired/Wireless Internet Communications
 
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