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In open mobile environments, mobile device may be connected to several network system offering heterogeneous sets of services using different names. The services can be anything and introduced by anybody, which results to have the possibility of having similar service with different names or different services having the same name. The current IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handover Services facilitate handover across these heterogeneous networks. However, the standard just provides network continuity without ensuring service continuity during the handover. We propose extensions to the MIH, which enable the exchange of service information in addition to network information at handover. This service information constitutes the fundament for a quality-driven service discovery, which is capable of discovering equivalent services and enabling the handover between them. In this paper, the extended MIH handover procedure is explained thoroughly. The additional service information elements are also described. The proposed service discovery system developed on Android is presented and a few use scenarios are given for illustration.
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Nor Shahniza Kamal Bashah is a PhD candidate at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. She received the BSc. degree from Technology University of Malaysia. She held a full time position as a lecturer in University Technology MARA and has been awarded a full scholarship to pursue her PhD degree in Information and Communication Technology. Her research interests include mobile wireless technology and distributed computing.
Natalia Kryvinska is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the e-Business research group, Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics, University of Vienna. She received her diploma engineer degree in telecommunications from National University “Lviv Polytechnics”, Lviv, Ukraine, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. Her research interests include distributed systems management, service-oriented architectures in telecom domain, service delivery platforms, and e-services.
Do van Thanh is a senior scientist at Telenor and professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway. Prof. Do Van Thanh obtained his MSc in Electronic and Computer Sciences from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and his PhD in Informatics from the University of Oslo. In 2000 after 7 years R&D at Norsk Data and 10 years at Ericsson he joined Telenor R&D. He is now in charge of Open mobile services research area. He is author of over 150 publications at international conferences and journals. He is also inventor of 22 patents and a dozen of pending ones.
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Bashah, N.S.K., Kryvinska, N. & van Thanh, D. Quality-driven service discovery techniques for open mobile environments and their business applications. J Serv Sci Res 4, 71–96 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12927-012-0003-4
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