WLAN cell handoff latency abatement using an FPGA fuzzy logic algorithm implementation

  • Authors:
  • Roberto Sepúlveda;Oscar Montiel-Ross;Jorge Quiñones-Rivera;Ernesto E. Quiroz

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto Politécnico Nacional-CITEDI, Tijuana, BC, Mexico;Instituto Politécnico Nacional-CITEDI, Tijuana, BC, Mexico;Instituto Politécnico Nacional-CITEDI, Tijuana, BC, Mexico;Instituto Politécnico Nacional-CITEDI, Tijuana, BC, Mexico

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Fuzzy Systems - Special issue on High Performance Fuzzy Systems for Real World Problems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Following the path toward 4G set by its wireless siblings LTE and WiMax, IEEE 802.11 technology, universally known as WiFi, is evolving to become a high data rate QoS-enabled mobile platform. The IEEE 802.11n standard yields data rates up to 450 Mbp s and the 802.11e standard ensures proficient QoS for real-time applications. Still in need of better performance, multicell environments that provide extended coverage allow the mobile station nomadic passage beyond a single cell by means of cell dissociation-association process known as handoff. This process poses a challenge for real-time applications like voice over IP (150 ms maximum delay) and video (200-400 ms) sessions, to give the user a seamless cell-crossing without data loss or session breakage. It presented an approach of a predictive fuzzy Logic controller to reduce the channel scanning process to a tenth of the standard time, and its efficient FPGA implementation to speed up the processing time. The algorithm of the fuzzy controller was implemented in C language. Experimental results are provided.