A fast handoff scheme for packet data service in the CDMA 2000 system

Author

Choi, Hoon ; Moayeri, Nader

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Chungnam Nat. Univ., Taejon, South Korea

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1747

Abstract

This paper proposes a fast handoff scheme for a mobile station using packet data service through the CDMA 2000 network. When a mobile station hands off to a cell in which the Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) is different from that of the previous cell, the CDMA 2000 system performs two stages of handoff in series, a cellular handoff followed by a Mobile IP (MIP) handoff. We propose a fast handoff scheme that reduces signaling latency and user data loss during a handoff. This improvement is achieved by having the source PDSN buffer the user data packets during the handoff procedure and the MIP handoff started concurrently with the cellular. The proposed fast handoff scheme is compatible with the existing protocols, and the two proposed modifications are transparent to mobile stations with the standard Mobile IP and Mobile IP route optimization protocols

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; code division multiple access; data communication; optimisation; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication control; telecommunication network routing; CDMA 2000 network; Internet; Mobile IP handoff; cellular handoff; data communication; data loss; mobile station; packet data serving node; protocols; route optimization; signaling latency; wireless communication; Communication switching; Computer networks; Data engineering; Delay; Internet; Multiaccess communication; Packet switching; Protocols; Switching circuits; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001. GLOBECOM '01. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965877

Filename

965877