Evaluating Filtering Strategies for Decentralized Handover Prediction in the Wireless Internet
ISCC '06 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Bluetooth Inquiry Time Characterization and Selection
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A layered infrastructure for mobility-aware best connectivity in the heterogeneous wireless internet
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi wireless protocols: a survey and a comparison
IEEE Wireless Communications
Mesh WLAN networks: concept and system design
IEEE Wireless Communications
Multihop Ad Hoc Networking: The Theory
IEEE Communications Magazine
Multihop Ad Hoc Networking: The Reality
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Communications Magazine
Nested Network Mobility on the Multihop Cellular Network
IEEE Communications Magazine
Mobility Management in Mobile Hotspots with Heterogeneous Multihop Wireless Links
IEEE Communications Magazine
Routing in Large-Scale Wireless Mesh Networks Using Temperature Fields
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Joint Power-Frequency-Time Resource Allocation in Clustered Wireless Mesh Networks
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
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The widespread diffusion of portable devices with multiple wireless interfaces, e.g., UMTS/GPRS, IEEE 802.11, and/or Bluetooth, is enabling multi-homing and multi-channel scenarios, possibly made up by multi-hop cooperative paths towards the traditional Internet infrastructure. There is the need for novel middleware supports, aware of innovative context information, to select and dynamically re-configure the most suitable interfaces and connectivity providers for each client application. In particular, novel middlewares should effectively exploit concise and lightweight context indicators about expected node mobility, path throughput, and energy availability to take proper connectivity management decisions at session startup and to promptly re-configure them with limited overhead at runtime. Here, we present how our MMHC middleware originally uses mobility/throughput/energy context to manage connectivity opportunities effectively, i) by filtering out connectivity opportunities that are considered insufficiently reliable, and ii) by carefully evaluating the residual candidates in two distinguished local/global management phases to achieve the most suitable tradeoff between promptness and management costs.