Infrastructure for testing WLAN roaming

Author

Polglase, J. Banos ; Angelat, C. Cárdenas ; Ruiz, C. Pérez

fYear

0

fDate

0-0 0

Lastpage

168

Abstract

WLAN (wireless local area networks) are proliferating wildly, at home, in business, and across the globe in public places. These types of networks are based on devices according to the IEEE 802.11 standard. A main drawback for the nomadic user is that roaming mechanisms for PWLAN have not been standardized. Some organizations have started a definition process in order to standardize a set of open interfaces to connect the different elements involved in the PWLAN roaming scenario. This contribution presents the work developed to provide testing infrastructure to validate WLAN roaming solutions. A combination of network interoperability testing and conformance testing is presented. The testing infrastructure has already been used and the main causes of interoperability problems have been identified

Keywords

IEEE standards; broadband networks; conformance testing; open systems; telecommunication standards; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 standard; PWLAN wireless local area network; conformance testing; network interoperability testing; open interface; roaming mechanism; Certification; Communication industry; Internet; Next generation networking; Roaming; Standardization; System testing; Telecommunication standards; Wireless LAN; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities, 2006. TRIDENTCOM 2006. 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Barcelona

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0106-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649142

Filename

1649142