Fairisle: an ATM network for the local area
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ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Distributed operating systems
Experiences of building an ATM switch for the local area
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Adaptive network support for mobile multimedia
MobiCom '95 Proceedings of the 1st annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Crossover switch discovery for wireless ATM LANs
Mobile Networks and Applications - Special issue: routing in mobile communications networks
A handover paradigm for wireless ATM LANs
SAC '96 Proceedings of the 1996 ACM symposium on Applied Computing
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MLICS '95 Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Mobile and Location-Independent Computing
Handover in a micro-cell packet switched mobile network
INFOCOM '95 Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communication Societies (Vol. 2)-Volume - Volume 2
Performance evaluation of crossover switch discovery algorithms for wireless ATM LANs
INFOCOM'96 Proceedings of the Fifteenth annual joint conference of the IEEE computer and communications societies conference on The conference on computer communications - Volume 3
A unifying methodology for handovers of heterogeneous connections in wireless ATM networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
A signaling architecture for wireless ATM access networks
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Mobile multicasting in wireless ATM networks
Mobile Networks and Applications
Connection Rerouting for Wireless ATM Networks
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Dimensioning Handover Buffers in Wireless ATM Networks with GSPN Models
ICATPN '98 Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
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On The Effect of the Handover Mechanisms in QoS Performance in Wireless Multimedia Networks
ICDCSW '04 Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops - W7: EC (ICDCSW'04) - Volume 7
Local and global handovers based on in-band signaling in wireless ATM networks
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
On the effect of handover mechanisms on the performance of video communications in WATM networks
International Journal of Wireless and Mobile Computing
Backtracking based handoff rerouting algorithm for WiMAX mesh mode
UIC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
A cell-numbering plan for seamless handoff in a wireless ATM network
Computer Communications
Mobility management and control in intelligent wireless ATM networks
Computer Communications
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While handovers of voice calls in a wide area mobile environment are well understood, handovers of multi-media traffic in a local area mobile environment is still in its early stage of investigation. Unlike the public wireless networks, handovers for multi-media Wireless LANs (WLANs) have special requirements. In this paper, the problems and challenges faced in a multi-media WLAN environment are outlined and a multi-tier wireless cell clustering architecture is introduced. Design issues for multi-media handovers are specified and a fast, continuous and efficient hybrid handover protocol is proposed. The protocol is scalable and supports source and destination mobile handovers in a mutually exclusive manner. Crossover switch (CX) discovery is also introduced to support fast inter-cluster handovers with consideration given to Mobile Quality of Service (M-QoS). The resulting wireless ATM LAN exhibits a distributed mobile location management, call admission control and handover management architecture. A prototype of the proposed handover protocol is implemented into a Cambridge Fairisle ATM switch and the results of handovers for a single Mobile Host (MH) with a single on-going connection are evaluated. It was found that implementing transport mobility for a wireless ATM environment is not practical as the cell re-routing function changes the traffic characteristics and is not scalable to increasing cell rate and to the number of mobile connections. The data-link layer mobility implementation however, is found to work well. The protocol provides symmetric data disruption to traffic flows in both directions and up to seventy-five intra-cluster handovers can be supported in a second. Throughout the experiment, cells arrive in sequence with no cell loss observed during the handover, up to the capacity limit of the ATM switch. Finally, `zig-zag' handovers and handovers for a single MH with multiple ongoing unicast connections are performed in order to evaluate the robustness and performance of the protocol under different MHs' migration and communication environment.