VERTICAL HANDOVER APPROACHES BASED ON IEEE 802.

21 MIH STANDARDS FOR HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS

Submitted by HARIKRISHNAN. M Registration No.: EC 1106 Under the guidance of Dr. G.SIVARADJE ABSTRACT Global connectivity, for anyone, anywhere, at anytime, to provide high speed, high quality, and reliable communication for mobile devices, is now becoming a reality. The credit mainly goes to the recent technology advances in wireless communications comprised of a wide range of technologies, services, and applications to fulfill the particular needs of end-users in different deployment scenarios (Wi-Fi, WiMax,and 3G/4G cellular systems).In such a heterogeneous environment, one of the key ingredients to provide efficient ubiquitous

computing with guaranteed quality and continuity of service is the design of intelligent handoff algorithms. In mobile communication, seamless vertical handover is one of the most challenging issues which may cause communication interruption, delays and packet losses that affect the real time communication performance. To resolve the problem of prevailing schemes, a marginal fast vertical handover Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) protocol using IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover (MIH) standard is proposed. The design goal of this project is to provide an efficient vertical handover decision algorithm based on IEEE 802.21 standard for best quality of service to wide range of applications. The proposed handover scenario is used to evaluate the vertical handover performance involving a multimode terminal with WLAN/WiMAX interfaces and IEEE 802.21 entities. This capability proves an efficient solution for mobility, multihoming and routing for integrating heterogeneous networks. In addition, the proposed scheme can reduce considerably traffic overhead between WLAN/WiMAX networks, handover latency and base station scanning interval time in OPNET platform and also various performance characteristics are analyzed in Qualnet platform.

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