Title :
Seamless Connectivity Scheme for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
Author :
Alkhayat, Jyad ; Kumar, Anup ; Elmaghraby, Adel
Author_Institution :
Comput. Eng. & Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Abstract :
The demand for the wireless Internet requiring broadband is expected to increase in a dramatic way due to popularity of tri player applications including voice, video, and data transmission. The existing wireless technologies UMTS, WiFi, WiMax, may not satisfy the customer requirements, for many reasons including availability, coverage, cost and most importantly mobility. Each technologies has it is own limitations related to the above characteristics. We present a seamless connectivity scheme for a mobile user, by aggregating different wireless technologies, to make the network transparent for the running applications on the mobile devices and satisfy wide range of services including voice, data, multimedia, and Web browsing.
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; WiMax; broadband networks; data communication; telecommunication services; voice communication; UMTS; Web browsing; WiFi; WiMax; data transmission; heterogeneous wireless networks; mobile user; seamless connectivity scheme; triplayer applications; video transmission; voice transmission; wireless Internet; 3G mobile communication; Costs; Internet; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Protocols; Space technology; WiMAX; Wireless LAN; Wireless communication; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Signal Processing and Information Technology, 2008. ISSPIT 2008. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sarajevo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3554-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3555-5
DOI :
10.1109/ISSPIT.2008.4775651