Intelligent Handoff for Mobile Wireless Internet

This paper presents an intelligent mobility management scheme for Mobile Wireless InterNet – MWIN. MWIN is a wireless service networks wherein its core network consisting of Internet routers and its access network can be built from any Internet-capable radio network. Two major standards are currently available for MWIN, i.e., the mobile IP and wireless LAN. Mobile IP solves address mobility problem with the Internet protocol while wireless LAN provides a wireless Internet access in the local area. However, both schemes solve problems independently at different layers, thereby some additional problems occur, e.g., delayed handoff, packet loss, and inefficient routing. This paper identifies these new problems and performs analyses and some real measurements on the handoff within MWIN. Then, a new handoff architecture that extends the features of both mobile IP and wireless LAN handoff mechanism was proposed. This new architecture consists of mobile IP extensions and a modified wireless LAN handoff algorithm. The effect of this enhancement provides a linkage between different layers for preventing packet loss and reducing handoff latency. Finally, some optimization issues regarding network planning and routing are addressed.     

无线网状网与协作中继技术

无线网状网已经成为无线宽带通信领域的研究热点,但是基于交换技术的无线网状网因为其将整个网络看作是一个IP子网而无法适用于大范围的覆盖。在无线链路中采用协作中继,可以提高无线链路的传输速率及传输可靠性。同时采用基于网络层路由技术的无线网状网技术,可以实现整个无线网状网的频谱效率提升和厂域覆盖。不过,由于标准化、关键技术研究以及产业化推进方面还存在许多问题,使得协作中继技术在无线网状网中的应用面临着巨大挑战。     

TD-SCDMA和WiMAX技术融合实现宽带无线移动通信系统

本文主要论述了基于TD-SCDMA和WiMAX技术融合实现一种新型的宽带无线移动通信系统。在该系统中,TD-SCDMA接入网提供广域无线覆盖,支持高移动性,提供话音业务和中、低速数据业务;WiMAX接入网提供热点区域覆盖,支持游牧移动性,提供高带宽流媒体数据服务,两种接入技术在网络层实现汇聚,通过网络层移动性管理技术,共享核心网络和业务系统,实现两种接入网的统一的无线资源管理以及统一的用户管理和计费,移动终端可以在该系统下的两种网络之间实现无缝漫游和切换。该种新型的移动通信系统能够很好的满足用户对移动通信业务的使用要求,也能够有力支持TD-SCDMA大规模独立组网,增强TD-SCDMA的竞争力;同时,也为TD-SCDMA系统的演进和跨越式发展提出新的思路。     

一种室外无线覆盖方案的设计与实现

随着移动互联网的发展,智能手机的快速普及,无线网络迅速融入当代人的主流生活,逐渐成为人们工作、学习与生活的基本需求。为了提高用户满意度,进一步提高网络覆盖面积,实现园区室外无线覆盖,文章提出了一种园区室外无线覆盖解决方案,有效解决了用户室外无线上网的需求。     

基于无线Mesh网络技术构建无线城市

无线Mesh网络(WMN)可以和多种无线网络系统,如无线局域网(WLAN)、无线城域网(WMAN)等相结合,改善无线网络的性能,提高网络的覆盖范围.以WMN网络技术在IEEE 802系列标准中的发展为基础,提出了一种无线城市的覆盖方案,最底层网络覆盖采用WiFi+wireless Mesh技术,WiMAX网络与WiFi...     

IP化基站无线Mesh组网构架

无线网状网（WMN）融合了无线局域网（WLAN）和Ad Hoc网络的性能优势,具有容量大、速率高、覆盖范围广等特点,成为宽带无线接入的一种有效手段,可以灵活地应用于多种无线环境。目前,蜂窝移动通信系统中各基站间的有线连接,使得传统的蜂窝移动通信系统难以满足部署方便、成本低廉、高可扩展性、高可靠性等指标。为适应下一代移动通信网络扁平化、简单化的发展趋势,IP化基站的无线Mesh组网架构是可选方案之一。支持IP化基站自组织的关键技术包括按需的基站自组织技术、联合无线资源调度机制、路由技术、安全技术、网络管理技术等。     

全业务运营下宽带无线接入网络建设纵横谈

在全业务运营环境下,移动互联网业务正在成为市场发展的主要抓手。宽带无线接入作为移动互联网的关键环节正面临诸多技术、经济问题。WLAN和Femto是当前重要的宽带无线接入技术,通过对两种技术的比较以及系统、覆盖总体方案的设计,从频率规划和扰码规划、无线接入点选择、网络性能测试等不同角度对WLAN和Femto网络建设中的重要问题进行分析,最后对我国宽带无线接入网建设中需注意的问题给出简要结论。     

Supporting the WWW in Wireless Communications Through Mobile Agents

Mobile computing is considered of major importance to the computing industry for the forthcoming years due to the progress in wireless mobile communications. We present a proxy-based architecture that manages to accelerate Web browsing in wireless Customer Premises Networks (CPN). We discuss how such an architecture is implemented using the IBM Aglets framework for mobile agents. The suggested architecture relies heavily on proxy caches – maintained in base stations – which are relocated to follow a roaming user in other control areas (clusters of cells). The cache management scheme involves relocation of full caches to the most-likely-to-be visited control areas, but also fractions of the cache to less-likely-to-be-visited neighbours. A movement prediction algorithm, based on a learning automaton, is used to determine the future location of the terminal. The discussed architecture components have been implemented as Aglets to allow for the efficient introduction of the service in a CPN infrastructure.     

An End-To-End Approach for Transparent Mobility Across Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

With the advent of a myriad of wireless networking technologies, a mobile host today can potentially be equipped with multiple wireless interfaces that have access to different wireless networks. It is widely perceived that future generation wireless networks will exhibit a similar trend in supporting a large variety of heterogeneous wireless access technologies that a mobile host can choose from. In this paper, we consider such a multi-homed mobile host and propose an end-to-end solution that enables the seamless use of heterogeneous wireless access technologies. The unique features of the proposed solution include: (i) a purely end-to-end approach to handle host mobility that requires no support from the underlying network infrastructure, (ii) seamless vertical handoffs when the mobile host migrates from one access network to another, (iii) ability to support different congestion control schemes for a live connection traversing different interfaces, and (iv) effective bandwidth aggregation when the mobile host has simultaneous access to multiple networks. We present the design and details of the proposed approach, and evaluate its performance through simulations and real-life field experiments.     

异构无线网络中移动终端接入智能切换的研究

为提升移动终端的传输性能,使终端有效利用环境中现有网络资源,设计了一种终端接入方式反馈控制机制。该机制应用下一代4G网络中的ANDSF网元与终端进行策略通信,ANDSF对终端用户无线侧信息采集,当无线环境发生变化,必要时向终端发送策略信息,终端通过解析策略来选择网络接入方式。为验证机制的可行性,搭建了由ANDSF与移动终端构成的演示系统。演示结果表明,提出的机制使终端有效的选择了最优的网络,获得了良好的服务质量。     

4G网络中无线基站的设计分析

科技促进了我国经济发展、社会进步以及国民生活水平的提高,同时我国各个领域也对科技有着越来越高的要求。在社会发展过程中,无线网络通信是重要的技术之一,在通信工程中占据着重要的位置。在科技的带动下,我国网络不断扩大覆盖区域,质量不断提升,各种无线基站数量在不断增加,这对于提升网络覆盖能力、网络信号质量、网络通信安全性和高效性方面都发挥了重要作用。在设计4G网络无线基站的过程中需要明确设计的重点,对汇聚层、核心层以及接入层等进行优化设计。同时,在设计无线基站的过程中还要对不同地区网络覆盖情况进行分析,保证无线基站结构设计的合理性,尽可能提升网络通信无线基站运行的可靠性,保证无线信号质量,为通信行业发展以及国民社会经济发展奠定坚实的基础。     

异构无线网络接入策略的比较研究

针对目前异构无线网络接入选择算法种类繁多并且功能各异的情况,为了解决异构无线网络中移动终端在任何时间、任何地点进行最优网络接入的问题,该文首先简单介绍了异构无线网络,其次根据优化目标的不同将异构无线网络接入选择算法分为基于决策因素的接入选择算法和基于数学模型的接入选择算法两类,最后分析了目前国内外异构无线网络接入选择算法的研究情况,对现有的异构无线网络接入选择算法在业务类型、用户策略以及网络安全性等方面进行了分析。为选择合适的异构无线网络选择算法提供了有效的依据及借鉴意义。     

新一代宽带无线移动通信网络管理的研究

网络管理在移动通信中占据了重要的地位，随着移动通信技术的发展，对新一代宽带无线移动通信网络管理的研究是一个热门的课题。文章分析了新一代宽带无线移动通信网络管理的特性，重点探讨了新一代移动通信网络管理的几种可能实现方案一分布式网络管理技术。     

结构独立开放并有QoS保证的异构无线网漫游方案

未来移动通信将包含多种不同的无线网络存取技术与标准 ,移动终端如何运转在不同的无线网络系统下 ,如何使用不同的无线存取技术 ( UMTS,cdma2 0 0 0 ,GSM/GPRS,WLAN,WPAN等 ) ,这是本篇要考虑的问题。并提出了一个结构独立开放并有 Qo S保证的基于 All- IP的异构无线网漫游方案     

A Framework for Seamless Roaming Across Heterogeneous Next Generation Wireless Networks

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.     

Quality of Deployment in Surveillance Wireless Sensor Networks

When wireless sensors are used to keep an area under surveillance, a critical issue is the quality of the deployment from the sensing coverage viewpoint. In this paper, we propose several quality measures, which indicate if the deployment provides sufficient coverage, or whether redeployment is required or not. The terrain is modeled as a grid and the placement of the sensors is uniformly distributed. Neyman–Pearson detection is utilized to determine the effects of false-alarm and signal characteristics on the measures.     

High Performance Wireless Switch Protocol for IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks

All mobile stations (STAs) in IEEE 802.11 infrastructure wireless local area networks (IWLAN) are coordinated by an access point (AP). Within the 2.4 GHz unlicensed industry, science, and medicine (ISM) band defined in the IEEE 802.11 2.4 GHz physical layer (PHY) specifications, three channels are available for concurrently transferring data packets at the coverage area of an AP. In most of small/medium enterprises or home environments, an AP with one selected channel is sufficient for covering whole service area, but this implies that the radio resources for the remaining two channels are wasted. In order to overcome the drawback, we propose a new and simple media access control (MAC) protocol, named wireless switch protocol (WSP), for increasing the throughput of IEEE 802.11 IWLAN network to support high quality multimedia traffic. This is achieved by allowing any pair of STAs in IWLAN to exchange data packets in one of other idle channels after their handshake with each other in the common channel controlled by AP. Simulation results show that the total network throughput of WSP depends on the time taken by channel switching, and on the ‘Intranet’ and ‘Internet’ traffic distribution, where the Intranet and Internet mean data transmission between STAs in IWLAN and between the STA and wired host, respectively. When all data packets are Intranet traffic and the traffic load is heavy, the ratio of Goodput for the proposed WSP to that of IEEE 802.11 standard approximates 400%. In the worse case of all Internet traffic, the proposed WSP still obtains the similar throughput as that of IEEE 802.11 standard.Jenhui Chen was born on October 12, 1971 in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China. He received the Bachelor’s and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) from Tamkang University in 1998 and 2003, respectively. In the Spring of 2003, he joined the faculty of Computer Science and Information Engineering Department at Chang Gung University and served as the Assistant Professor. He occupies the supervisor of Network Department in the Information Center, Chang Gung University. Dr. Chen once served the reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), and Journal of Information Science and Engineering. His main research interests include design, analysis, and implementation of communication and network protocols, wireless networks, milibots, and artificial intelligence. He is a member of ACM and IEEE.Ai-Chun Pang was born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1973. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Information Engineering from National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in 1996, 1998 and 2002, respectively. She joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, Taiwan, as an Assistant Professor in 2002. Her research interests include design and analysis of personal communications services network, mobile computing, voice over IP, and performance modeling.Shiann-Tsong Sheu received his B.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from National Chung Hsing University in 1990, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University in May of 1995. From 1995 to 2002, he was an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tamkang University. Since Feb. 2002, he has become a Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Tamkang University. Dr. Sheu received the outstanding young researcher award by the IEEE Communication Society Asia Pacific Board in 2002. His research interests include next-generation wireless communication, WDM networks and intelligent control algorithms.Hsueh-Wen Tseng received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tamkang University, Taipei country, Taiwan, in 2001 and M.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2003. He is currently pursuing the Ph. D. degree at the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. His research interests include design, analysis and implementation of network protocols and wireless communications.     

固定宽带无线接入与移动宽带无线接入的比较

现今,信息通信从窄带向宽带、从有线向无线转变乃大势所趋。随着中国各运营商通信网络的迅猛发展,用户对网络的平均服务质量要求也越来越高,宽带无线接入技术作为一种有效的宽带解决方案而普遍地受到了人们的重视。那么,固定宽带无线接入与移动宽带无线接入有什么不同呢?本文首先在研究了固定宽带无线接入系统与移动宽带无线接入系统的网络结构后,重点讨论了两者的不同之处,即做了一个对比研究。希望能给相关人员有所参考。     

新一代超密集异构蜂窝无线网络研究

近年来,随着移动互联网的蓬勃发展和智能终端的快速普及,对无缝网络覆盖和高速数据传输要求日趋增强,超密集异构蜂窝无线网络通过减小小区半径,增加低功率节点数量进行超密集组网,提高无线资源利用率和频谱效率,因而引起了国内外研究学者的广泛关注。然而,超密集异构蜂窝无线网络中愈发密集的网络部署也带来了各种严峻的问题,包括超密集异构蜂窝无线网络中的系统干扰问题、无线信息的安全传输问题、以及网络运营的能量供给问题等。为此,本文首先简单介绍了超密集异构蜂窝无线网络架构,接着从干扰管理、物理层安全和能量效率等方面,深入分析了超密集异构蜂窝无线网络中的关键技术和当前挑战,最后,进一步展望了超密集异构蜂窝无线网络的未来发展。