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Reducing MAC layer handoff latency in IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs

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Sangho Shin,

Andrea G. Forte,

Anshuman Singh Rawat,

Henning SchulzrinneAuthors Info & Claims

MobiWac '04: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols

Pages 19 - 26

https://doi.org/10.1145/1023783.1023788

Published: 01 October 2004 Publication History

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With the growth of IEEE 802.11-based wireless LANs, VoIP and similar applications are now commonly used over wireless networks. Mobile station performs a handoff whenever it moves out of the range of one access point (AP) and tries to connect to a different one. This takes a few hundred milliseconds, causing interruptions in VoIP sessions. We developed a new handoff procedure which reduces the MAC layer handoff latency, in most cases, to a level where VoIP communication becomes seamless. This new handoff procedure reduces the discovery phase using a selective scanning algorithm and a caching mechanism.

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MobiWac '04: Proceedings of the second international workshop on Mobility management & wireless access protocols

October 2004

140 pages

ISBN:1581139209

DOI:10.1145/1023783

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Azzedine Boukerche
University of Ottawa, Canada
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University of Maryland, USA
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University of Patras and CTI, Greece

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