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TY - GEN
T1 - Intelligent Autonomous Handover in iMANETs
AU - McCarthy, Ben
AU - Georgopoulos, Panagiotis
AU - Edwards, Christopher
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Autonomously making good network handover decisions is a complicated process that is fundamentally important in many complex mobile scenarios. In many mobile scenarios it is often infeasible to assume that an end user can be required to intervene and manually perform or verify a network handover decision. For this reason, utilities are required that can specically manage the network connectivity of mobile nodes, monitoring their constantly changing state and the changing environment around them in order to ensure that the most appropriate connection is utilised at any given time. In this paper we present our Handover Manager that we have developed specifically for use in rescue system mobile networking solutions, such as mountain and coastal rescue, based on our experiences from real use case deployments. In particular we describe the way our solution autonomously manages connections to multiple heterogeneous access network technologies, we provide results from a testbed based analysis we performed and finally we draw upon our experiences to highlight important areas for future consideration that are applicable to our Handover Manager approach and to the wider MANET community in general.
AB - Autonomously making good network handover decisions is a complicated process that is fundamentally important in many complex mobile scenarios. In many mobile scenarios it is often infeasible to assume that an end user can be required to intervene and manually perform or verify a network handover decision. For this reason, utilities are required that can specically manage the network connectivity of mobile nodes, monitoring their constantly changing state and the changing environment around them in order to ensure that the most appropriate connection is utilised at any given time. In this paper we present our Handover Manager that we have developed specifically for use in rescue system mobile networking solutions, such as mountain and coastal rescue, based on our experiences from real use case deployments. In particular we describe the way our solution autonomously manages connections to multiple heterogeneous access network technologies, we provide results from a testbed based analysis we performed and finally we draw upon our experiences to highlight important areas for future consideration that are applicable to our Handover Manager approach and to the wider MANET community in general.
KW - Network Mobility
KW - Intelligent Handover
KW - iMANET
KW - Implementation
KW - Design
KW - Experimentation
KW - Performance
U2 - 10.1145/1755743.1755759
DO - 10.1145/1755743.1755759
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 978-1-60558-925-1
SP - 86
EP - 92
BT - MobiOpp '10 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking
PB - ACM
CY - New York
T2 - Second ACM/SIGMOBILE International Workshop on Mobile Opportunistic Networking (MobiOpp 2010)
Y2 - 22 February 2010 through 23 February 2010
ER -