Providing Seamless Communications in Mobile Wireless Networks

Abstract

This paper presents a technique to provide seamless communications in mobile wireless networks. The goal of seamless communication is to provide disruption free service to a mobile user. A disruption in service could occur due to active handoffs (handoffs during an active connection). Existing protocols either provide total guarantee for disruption free service incurring heavy network bandwidth usage (multicast based approach), or do not provide any guarantee for disruption free service (forwarding approach). There are many user applications that do not require a "total" guarantee for disruption free service but would also not tolerate very frequent disruptions. This paper proposed a novel staggered multicast approach which provides a probabilistic guarantee for disruption free service. The main advantage of the staggered multicast approach is that it exploits the performance guarantees provided by the multicast approach and also provides the much required savings in the static network bandwidth.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1995
Accession Number
ADA637094

Entities

People

  • Bikram S. Bakshi
  • Dillip K. Pradhan
  • N. H. Vaidya
  • P. Krishna

Organizations

  • Texas A&M University

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Networks
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Science
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Digital Communications
  • Mobile Communications
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Networks
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Random Walk
  • Time Intervals
  • Wireless Communications
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computer Networking