Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique

The protocol type and the base station (BS) technology are the main communication media between the Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication in vehicular networks. During high speed vehicle movement, the best communication would be with a seamless handover (HO) delay in terms of lower packet lo...

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Main Author: Idris Jubara, Hala Eldaw
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Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling my-utm-ep.366602017-09-19T03:31:00Z Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique 2013 Idris Jubara, Hala Eldaw TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The protocol type and the base station (BS) technology are the main communication media between the Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication in vehicular networks. During high speed vehicle movement, the best communication would be with a seamless handover (HO) delay in terms of lower packet loss and throughput. Many studies have focused on how to reduce the HO delay during lower speeds of the vehicle with data link (L2) and network (L3) layers protocol. However, this research studied the Transport Layer (L4) protocol mobile Stream Control Transmission Protocol (mSCTP) used as an optimal protocol in collaboration with the Location Manager (LM) and Domain Name Server (DNS). In addition, the BS technology that performs smooth HO employing an adaptive algorithm in L2 to perform the HO according to current vehicle speed was also included in the research. The methods derived from the combination of L4 and the BS technology methods produced an Adaptive Cross-Layer (ACL) design which is a mobility oriented handover management scheme that adapts the HO procedure among the protocol layers. The optimization has a better performance during HO as it is reduces scanning delay and diversity level as well as support transparent mobility among layers in terms of low packet loss and higher throughput. All of these metrics are capable of offering maximum flexibility and efficiency while allowing applications to refine the behaviour of the HO procedure. Besides that, evaluations were performed in various scenarios including different vehicle speeds and background traffic. The performance evaluation of the proposed ACL had approximately 30% improvement making it better than the other handover solutions. 2013 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36660/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36660/1/HalaEldawIdrisJubaraPFKE2013.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:77746?queryType=vitalDismax&query=Handover+management+in+mobile+WiMAX+using+adaptive+cross-layer+technique&public=true phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
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Idris Jubara, Hala Eldaw
Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique
description The protocol type and the base station (BS) technology are the main communication media between the Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communication in vehicular networks. During high speed vehicle movement, the best communication would be with a seamless handover (HO) delay in terms of lower packet loss and throughput. Many studies have focused on how to reduce the HO delay during lower speeds of the vehicle with data link (L2) and network (L3) layers protocol. However, this research studied the Transport Layer (L4) protocol mobile Stream Control Transmission Protocol (mSCTP) used as an optimal protocol in collaboration with the Location Manager (LM) and Domain Name Server (DNS). In addition, the BS technology that performs smooth HO employing an adaptive algorithm in L2 to perform the HO according to current vehicle speed was also included in the research. The methods derived from the combination of L4 and the BS technology methods produced an Adaptive Cross-Layer (ACL) design which is a mobility oriented handover management scheme that adapts the HO procedure among the protocol layers. The optimization has a better performance during HO as it is reduces scanning delay and diversity level as well as support transparent mobility among layers in terms of low packet loss and higher throughput. All of these metrics are capable of offering maximum flexibility and efficiency while allowing applications to refine the behaviour of the HO procedure. Besides that, evaluations were performed in various scenarios including different vehicle speeds and background traffic. The performance evaluation of the proposed ACL had approximately 30% improvement making it better than the other handover solutions.
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qualification_name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.)
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author Idris Jubara, Hala Eldaw
author_facet Idris Jubara, Hala Eldaw
author_sort Idris Jubara, Hala Eldaw
title Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique
title_short Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique
title_full Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique
title_fullStr Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique
title_full_unstemmed Handover management in mobile WiMAX using adaptive cross-layer technique
title_sort handover management in mobile wimax using adaptive cross-layer technique
granting_institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate 2013
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/36660/1/HalaEldawIdrisJubaraPFKE2013.pdf
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