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Testbed evaluation of a seamless handover mechanism for an SDN-based enterprise WLAN

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Many modern-day applications require seamless connectivity to provide a good quality experience to mobile users. Thus, mobility management mechanism becomes a crucial aspect of all the wireless technologies used to connect to the Internet. In this letter, we present the testbed implementation details of a Network Address Translation (NAT)-based, client-unaware, seamless handover mechanism for a Software-Defined Enterprise WLAN framework. The results from the testbed implementation corroborate that the handover mechanism can provide uninterrupted connectivity during a handover process.

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This work was supported in part by a Mid-Career Institute Research and Development Award (IRDA) Grant from IIT Madras (2017–2020) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST) Grant (EMR/ 2016/003016) from the Government of India (2017–2020).

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    Arkadeep Sen & Krishna M Sivalingam

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Sen, A., Sivalingam, K.M. Testbed evaluation of a seamless handover mechanism for an SDN-based enterprise WLAN. Sādhanā 44, 243 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12046-019-1229-3

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