IEEE 802.21: Media independence beyond handover

  • Authors:
  • Antonio de la Oliva;Ignacio Soto;Albert Banchs;Johannes Lessmann;Christian Niephaus;Telemaco Melia

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain;Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Avenida Complutense 30, 28040 Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganés, Spain;NEC Network Labs, Kurfrsten-Anlage 36, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany;Fraunhofer Institute, FOKUS, Schloss Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany;Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, Route de Villejust, 91620 Nozay, France

  • Venue:
  • Computer Standards & Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The IEEE 802.21 standard facilitates media independent handovers by providing higher layer mobility management functions with common service primitives for all technologies. Right after the base specification was published, several voices rose up in the working group advocating to broaden the scope of IEEE 802.21 beyond handovers. This paper aims at updating the reader with the main challenges and functionalities required to create a Media Independence Service Layer, through the analysis of scenarios which are being discussed within the working group: 1) Wireless Coexistence, and 2) Heterogeneous Wireless Multihop Backhaul Networks.