A mobility-enabled hybrid wireless network with standard ATM backbone switches: architecture, implementation and performance

Author

Zhou, Sihui ; Chan, Jonathan ; Seneviratne, Aruna ; Percival, Terry

Author_Institution

Telecommun. & Ind. Phys., CSIRO, Epping, NSW, Australia

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

388

Abstract

The wide acceptance of ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) as a backbone technology in both LAN and WAN environments and the demand of mobile computing with QoS supports have led to the deployment of mobile wireless networks with ATM cores. This paper presents the architecture, implementation and performance evaluation of a mobile-enabled hybrid ATM backbone wireless network. In this architecture, software switching is used to create separate control channels for supporting mobility and QoS. Common applications such as Telnet, Netscape, and MPEG video have been successfully tested in this prototype. Test performance shows that the proposed architecture has acceptable handover latency and location management cost

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; land mobile radio; local area networks; mobile computing; packet radio networks; quality of service; radio direction-finding; telecommunication network management; wide area networks; ATM backbone switches; ATM cores; LAN; MPEG video; Netscape; QoS supports; Telnet; WAN; asynchronous transfer mode; backbone technology; control channels; handover latency; hybrid ATM backbone wireless network; location management cost; mobile computing; mobile wireless networks; mobility-enabled hybrid wireless network; network architecture; network implementation; network performance; performance evaluation; software switching; test performance; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Computer architecture; Computer networks; Local area networks; Mobile computing; Spine; Testing; Wide area networks; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999. WCNC. 1999 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5668-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.1999.797853

Filename

797853