Title :
Supporting vertical handover by using a pastry peer-to-peer overlay network
Author :
Hossfeld, Tobias ; Oechsner, Simon ; Tutschku, Kurt ; Andersen, Frank-Uwe ; Caviglione, Luca
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Distributed Syst., Wurzburg Univ.
Abstract :
Vertical handovers (VHO) are expected to be a key feature in beyond 3G (B3G) networks. This paper presents a pastry-based P2P overlay network for supporting vertical handover in B3G networks. The P2P overlay is used to quickly locate attachment points (APs) for mobile entities and to rapidly retrieve the configuration and coverage information of these APs. The advantage of the P2P-based solution is its distributed nature, its scalability, and its self-organizing capability
Keywords :
3G mobile communication; peer-to-peer computing; attachment points; beyond 3G networks; mobile entities; pastry peer-to-peer overlay network; vertical handover; Computer networks; Computer science; Databases; Distributed computing; Information retrieval; Interference; Peer to peer computing; Quality of service; Radiofrequency identification; Scalability;
Conference_Titel :
Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops, 2006. PerCom Workshops 2006. Fourth Annual IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pisa
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2520-2
DOI :
10.1109/PERCOMW.2006.130
