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Improvements on “IP – IAPP”: A fast IP handoff protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless and mobile clients

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Abstract

One of the most critical issues in introducing Wireless LAN (WLAN) real-time and delay sensitive applications, such as Voice over IP (VoIP), is guaranteeing IP service continuation during inter-subnet Basic Service Set (BSS) transitions. Even though WLANs offer very high channel bandwidth, they exhibit long network-layer handoff latency. This is a restraining factor for mobile clients using interactive multimedia applications such as VoIP or video streaming. In a previous work, we presented a novel fast and efficient IP mobility solution, called “IP-IAPP”, which offers constant IP connectivity to the 802.11 mobile users and successfully preserves their ongoing sessions, even during subnet handoffs (fast recovery of active connections). It is an 802.11-dependent IP mobility solution, which accelerates the network reconfiguration phase after subnet handoffs and significantly reduces the IP handoff latency. It restores L3 connectivity almost simultaneously to the L2 connectivity after a subnet handoff, due to a zero-delay movement detection method. As a result, even the most demanding next generation WLAN applications such as Voice over WLAN (VoWLAN) suffer insignificant disruption. In this paper we present an improved version of the IP-IAPP mobility mechanism (new optimized protocol procedures). Certain extensions have also been incorporated to the initial proposal, for the provision of more advanced services: (a) secure inter-AP IP-IAPP communications, (b) zero patching on the clients s/w, and (c) support of clients which use a dynamic IP address. Performance measurements out of further and more complex testing verify that the proposed method outperforms other existing mobility solutions, and still introduces the lesser imperative amendments to the existing 802.11 wireless LAN framework.

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Ioanna Samprakou & Christos J. Bouras

  2. Atmel Hellas, MMC S.A., Athens, Greece

    Ioanna Samprakou & Theodore Karoubalis

  3. Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece

    Christos J. Bouras

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Ioanna F. Samprakou received her B. Eng in Computer Engineering and Informatics in 2000 and her MSc. in the same area in 2003 from the University of Patras, Greece. She is currently a Ph.D canditate at the University of Patras. She has joined Atmel SA in 2002, where she is a Senior Wireless System Eng at the System Concept and Design group. She specializes in wireless technologies, and mobile communications, and holds a patent in the field of IP mobility. She has led teams in developing wireless 802.11 products such as Wi-Fi APs, STAs, and VoIP phones. Previously she has worked for the Research & Academic Computer & Technology Institute of Patras (RACTI) as an R&D computer engineer. She is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Christos J. Bouras obtained his Diploma and PhD from the Computer Science and Engineering Department of Patras University (Greece). He is currently an Associate Professor in the above department. Also he is a scientific advisor of Research Unit 6 in Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (CTI), Patras, Greece. His research interests include Analysis of Performance of Networking and Computer Systems, Computer Networks and Protocols, Telematics and New Services, QoS and Pricing for Networks and Services, e – learning, Networked Virtual Environments and WWW Issues. He has extended professional experience in Design and Analysis of Networks, Protocols, Telematics and New Services. He has published 200 papers in various well-known refereed conferences and journals. He is a co-author of 7 books in Greek. He has been a PC member and referee in various international journals and conferences. He has participated in R&D projects such as RACE, ESPRIT, TELEMATICS, EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA, ISPO, EMPLOYMENT, ADAPT, STRIDE, EUROFORM, IST, GROWTH and others. Also he is member of, experts in the Greek Research and Technology Network (GRNET), Advisory Committee Member to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), IEEE Learning Technology Task Force, IEEE Technical Community for Services Computing WG 3.3 Research on Education Applications of Information Technologies and W 6.4 Internet Applications Engineering of IFIP, Task Force for Broadband Access in Greece, ACM, IEEE, EDEN, AACE and New York Academy of Sciences.

Theodore E. Karoubalis. received his B. Eng in Computer Engineering and Informatics in 1992 and his Ph.D. in the same area in 1996 from the University of Patras, Greece. He has joined ATMEL Hellas SA at 1998. Since 1998 he is the Manager of PSLi software dpt. and since 2002 he is the manager of System and Concepts dpt. His interests include systems on chip, embedded applications, wireless systems etc. He is a member of IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

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Samprakou, I., Bouras, C.J. & Karoubalis, T. Improvements on “IP – IAPP”: A fast IP handoff protocol for IEEE 802.11 wireless and mobile clients. Wireless Netw 13, 497–510 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-006-9202-6

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