Linux Network Architecture
Kernel korner: why and how to use netlink socket
Linux Journal
Manipulating the network environment using RTNETLINK
Linux Journal
Managing mobility and adaptation in upcoming 802.21 enabled devices
WMASH '06 Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Wireless mobile applications and services on WLAN hotspots
The Linux Programmer's Toolbox (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
The Linux Programmer's Toolbox (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)
Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition
Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition
A Multi-Interface Proposal for IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover
ICMB '07 Proceedings of the International Conference on the Management of Mobile Business
An information service infrastructure for ambient networks
PDCN'07 Proceedings of the 25th conference on Proceedings of the 25th IASTED International Multi-Conference: parallel and distributed computing and networks
LINE: link information normalization environment
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications
On the performance gains of VoIP aggregation and ROHC over a wirelessMAN-OFDMA air interface
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Enabling Heterogeneous Mobility in Android Devices
Mobile Networks and Applications
Seamless link quality guaranteed handover scheme over experimental IEEE 802.21 MIH testbed
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
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Multiaccess mobile devices and overlapping wireless network deployments have emerged as a next generation network fixture. To make the most of all available networks, mobile devices should be capable of handing over between heterogeneous networks seamlessly and automatically. At the same time, operators should be able to steer network attachment based on their criteria. Although several cross layer mechanisms have been proposed in recent years, only the Media Independent Handover (MIH) Services framework has advanced in any of the established standardization bodies. This paper presents a blueprint for a GNU/Linux implementation of IEEE 802.21. We review the salient points of the standard, introduce our software implementation architecture, detail information gathering in GNU/Linux, and show how our prototype implementation can be used in practice. In contrast with prior published work, this paper presents a real IEEE 802.21 implementation, not an abstracted or reduced MIH-like framework, tested and empirically evaluated over real heterogeneous networks.