An empirical analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer handoff process
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Improving the latency of 802.11 hand-offs using neighbor graphs
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Reducing MAC layer handoff latency in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs
Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access 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
Practical Schemes for Smooth MAC Layer Handoff in 802.11Wireless Networks
WOWMOM '06 Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on on World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
A hybrid-routing based intra-domain mobility management scheme for wireless mesh networks
Proceedings of the 11th international symposium on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
Algorithms and Protocols for Wireless, Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
BASH: A backhaul-aided seamless handoff scheme for Wireless Mesh Networks
WOWMOM '08 Proceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Wireless mesh networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Performance evaluation of a fast MAC handoff scheme using dynamic adjustment of scanning parameters
Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Compared to traditional wireless networks, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are more efficient in terms of deployment, configuration, and maintenance. However, connecting all routers through wireless connection in WMNs results in remarkably lower bandwidth of the network backbone. Multichannel technology, where non-interfering channels are used to enable mesh routers to send and receive packets simultaneously, has been extensively adopted to improve the throughput of WMNs, and providing seamless roaming in multichannel WMNs has become an important topic in WMN research. In this paper, a novel MAC layer handoff scheme is proposed as a means of minimizing handoff latency in WiFi-based multichannel WMNs for seamless communication in real-time applications. By designing a dynamic grouping algorithm for channel selection and allowing mesh routers to switch channels for probe message reply, this new scheme can shorten the waiting time for the detection of available access routers, decrease loss ratio of data packets during handoff, and consequently achieve smooth handoff in the MAC layer.