Tracking agent based paging for wireless LANs

Author

Sarikaya, Behcet ; Ozugur, Timucin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada

fYear

2004

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2004

Firstpage

279

Lastpage

284

Abstract

We design a protocol for paging (tracking agent based paging or TAP) IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN hosts. Mobile nodes in IEEE 802.11 BSS constitute a layer-2 paging area. The tracking agent (TA) is in charge of the paging state, and TA continuously updates the paging state after each layer-2 handoff. Paging on the wireless link is done by extended beacons, and does not involve periodic layer-3 messages. Signaling in TAP is based on IEEE´s IAPP (inter-access point protocol) with minor extensions. We evaluate the performance of TAP and show that TAP achieves superior power savings.

Keywords

mobile radio; paging communication; protocols; software agents; telecommunication computing; tracking; wireless LAN; BSS; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN hosts; inter-access point protocol; layer-2 handoff; mobile nodes; power savings; protocol design; tracking agent based paging; Broadcasting; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Local area networks; Mobile communication; Paging strategies; Technological innovation; USA Councils; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8145-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2004.1286872

Filename

1286872