A Framework for Seamless Roaming Across Heterogeneous Next Generation Wireless Networks |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Nirmala?ShenoyEmail author |
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Affiliation: | (1) Information Technology Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA |
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Abstract: | In the future, wireless and mobile users will have increased demands for seamless roaming across different types of wireless
networks, quality of service guarantees and support of different types of services. This awareness has led to research activities
directed towards inter-system and global roaming and can be noticed in the numerous products like multimode handsets, inter-working
gateways and some ongoing standards and research work on signaling protocols for inter-system roaming. This article proposes
a global mobility management framework. The framework is like an overlay network comprising of Inter-System Interface Control Units IICU to support inter-network communication and control for Location Management. The protocols and functions of this framework will be distributed and exist partly within the wireless networks and partly
within the core-network. A hierarchy introduced among the IICUs will accommodate for the varying mobility coverage required
by the mobile user. The IICU may be configured to perform various functions depending on its placement in the hierarchy of the framework. This approach
aims to optimize across call set up delays, signaling traffic, database processing, handoff facilitation for seamless roaming
and QoS mapping and negotiations as the user moves across different wireless networks. It avoids centralized database dependency
with its associated single-point bottleneck and failures. We restrict our analysis of the framework to a 2-network and a 3-network
roaming scenario. The presentation has been further restricted to cost and delay analysis of the location update and call
delivery procedures. We have taken into account the signalling requirements when the mobile user roams across networks with
and without an active call.
Nirmala Shenoy is Associate Professor at the Information Technology department at RIT. She has several years of teaching and research experience
while working in Germany, Singapore and Australia before she moved to USA. She is an avid researcher in the wireless networks
area and has technically led several wireless network projects to success. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the
University of Bremen, Germany, Masters in Applied Electronics and Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
both from Madras University in India. Professor Shenoy is interested in research in the area mobility management and modeling
for wireless networks, Quality of service in wireless networks and the Internet. |
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Keywords: | handoff management heterogenous wireless networks seamless roaming QoS provisioning |
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