Performance Analysis of Decentralized RAN (Radio Access Network) Discovery Schemes for IEEE 802.21

Author

Moon, Cheoleun ; Yang, Sookhyun ; Yeom, Ikjun

Author_Institution

KAIST, Daejeon

fYear

2007

Firstpage

41

Lastpage

45

Abstract

As more wireless access networks become available, there is a new challenge emerged: how to discover currently available radio access networks (RANs). To discover available RANs without help from centralized servers, each mobile host periodically turns on network interfaces to discover available networks. Performance of a RAN discovery scheme may depend on how to maintain a valid list of available networks while minimizing power consumption to discover RANs. In this paper, we derive several decentralized RAN discovery schemes. Through extensive simulations, we evaluate them in terms of achieved bandwidth, the number of handovers and power consumption.

Keywords

mobile radio; radio access networks; IEEE 802.21 standard; decentralized RAN discovery scheme; mobile host; network interfaces; radio access network; Bandwidth; Computer science; Energy consumption; Monitoring; Network servers; Network topology; Performance analysis; Radio access networks; Switches; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC-2007 Fall. 2007 IEEE 66th

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0263-2

Electronic_ISBN

1090-3038

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2007.25

Filename

4349674