A mobility monitoring based advance reservation protocol

  • Authors:
  • Ian Featherstone;Ning Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Manchester, Manchester, UK;University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Quality of service & security for wireless and mobile networks
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Future wireless cellular networks will be Internet Protocol (IP) based. Users of wireless devices in these networks will expect to run real-time applications that require guarantees of Quality of Service (QoS). Such a user will expect the same seamless QoS that he would receive if he were running real-time applications on a wired network. Achieving seamless QoS in a mobile environment implies that a reservation should be re-established at the new Base Station (BS) before hand-over occurs. However, making these advance reservations is wasteful of valuable bandwidth in the wireless network. This paper proposes a protocol, called the Mobility Monitoring Based Advance Reservation Protocol (M虏BARP), which aims to reduce the bandwidth overhead of making advance reservations. The protocol makes use of information about a Mobile Node's (MN) mobility to make a single advance reservation when the MN is about to hand-over. Unlike previous work, M虏BARP takes advantage of overlapping cells to help to provide a more seamless QoS by reducing the number of calls dropped at hand-over