HAWAII: A Domain-Based Approach for Supporting Mobility in Wide-Area Wireless Networks
ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
Design and Evaluation of iMesh: An Infrastructure-Mode Wireless Mesh Network
WOWMOM '05 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Handbook of Algorithms for Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing (Chapman & Hall/Crc Computer & Information Science)
Fast handoff for seamless wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Mobile systems, applications and services
WDS-based layer 2 routing for wireless mesh networks
WiNTECH '06 Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A survey of mobility management in next-generation all-IP-based wireless systems
IEEE Wireless Communications
IDMP-based fast handoffs and paging in IP-based 4G mobile networks
IEEE Communications Magazine
An efficient metric-based (EM-B) location management scheme for wireless cellular networks
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
International Journal of Network Management
Agent assisted mobility and load aware fast handoff scheme in wireless mesh networks
International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology
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Recent advances in wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have overcome the drawbacks of traditional wired networks and wireless ad hoc networks. WMNs will play a leading role in the next generation of networks, and the question of how to provide seamless mobility management for WMNs is the driving force behind the research. The inherent characteristics of WMNs, such as relatively static backbones and highly mobile clients, require new mobility management solutions to be designed and implemented. In this paper, a hybrid routing protocol for forwarding packets is proposed: this involves both link layer routing and network layer routing. Based on the hybrid routing protocol, a mobility management scheme for WMNs is presented. Both intra-domain and inter-domain mobility management have been designed to support seamless roaming in WiFi-based WMNs. During intra-domain handoff, gratuitous ARP messages are used to provide new routing information, thus avoiding re-routing and location update. For inter-domain handoff, redundant tunnels are removed in order to minimize forwarding latency. Comprehensive simulation results illustrate that our scheme has low packet latency, low packet loss ratio and short handoff latency. As a result, real-time applications over 802.11 WMNs such as VoIP can be supported.