Performance analysis of mobility in 3G cellular UMTS and WLAN networks

Author

Pastrav, Andra Elena Iulia ; Grapa, Anca-Ioana ; Palade, Tudor ; Puschita, Emanuel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Commun., Tech. Univ. of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

fYear

2013

fDate

11-13 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Mobility regarded from a Quality of Service (QoS) point of view can be provided by future wireless access technologies with an efficient management of the handover process. The aim of this work is to present a comparative analysis of handover mechanisms in 3G access technology UMTS, Wireless LAN 802.11-g, as well as in proposed hybrid integrated architecture UMTS-WLAN, in terms of QoS parameters: delay, jitter, throughput and packet loss. The obtained results should be useful considering that future unified architectures aim at integrating different types of access architectures for overall better performance.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; cellular radio; mobility management (mobile radio); quality of service; wireless LAN; 3G access technology; 3G cellular UMTS; QoS; WLAN networks; handover process; mobility; performance analysis; quality of service; wireless LAN 802.11-g; wireless access technologies; QoS; QualNet; UMTS; WLAN; vertical handoff;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ISEEE), 2013 4th International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Galati

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEEE.2013.6674342

Filename

6674342