SNC: a selective neighbor caching scheme for fast handoff in IEEE 802.11 wireless networks

Authors:
Sangheon Pack;Hakyung Jung;Taekyoung Kwon;Yanghee Choi
Affiliations:
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea;Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Venue:
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review - Special Issue on Medium Access and Call Admission Control Algorithms for Next Generation Wireless Networks.: The Digital Library version of this issue has a corrected special issue title compared to the one in the print version of the issue.
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Mobility support is one of the most challenging issues in IEEE 802.11 networks. In the proactive neighbor caching (PNC) scheme, when a mobile host is connected to an access point (AP), its context (e.g. security association or QoS information) is propagated in advance to all of the AP's neighbors to reduce handoff processing time. In this paper, we propose a selective neighbor caching (SNC) scheme, which propagates a mobile host's context only to the selected neighbor APs considering handoff patterns. Therefore, the SNC scheme can reduce the message overhead on the links among APs. We evaluate the performance of the SNC and PNC schemes in terms of the cache hit probability and the signaling cost. Especially, we investigate the effect of mobility and cache size through extensive simulations. The results reveal that the SNC scheme provides a comparable cache hit probability while significantly reducing the signaling overhead in IEEE 802.11 networks. Moreover, although the SNC propagates relatively a small number of contexts to neighbor APs, the SNC scheme outperforms the PNC scheme when the cache size is small and the mobility is low.