A L2 transmission feedback based buffering scheme for mobile IP handovers in an IEEE 802.11 wireless network

  • Authors:
  • Peter De Cleyn;Chris Blondia

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Antwerp, IBBT, Dep. of Mathematics and Computer Science, PATS Research Group, Antwerp, Belgium;University of Antwerp, IBBT, Dep. of Mathematics and Computer Science, PATS Research Group, Antwerp, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • TELE-INFO'06 Proceedings of the 5th WSEAS international conference on Telecommunications and informatics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The IEEE 802.11 wireless network uses a hard handoff mechanism and thus makes it hard for higher layer mobility protocols to implement lossless handovers. In this paper we will show that using IEEE 802.11 transmission feedback data, we can optimize our smooth Mobile IP handoff scheme.