Abstract:
A fast handover method optimized for IEEE 802.11 networks. In a wireless local area system including a mobile terminal and at least two wireless access points (APs) that communicate with the mobile terminal over a unique radio channel, the fast handover method includes receiving a beacon frame signal from the serving AP and the neighbor APs of the mobile terminal; generating a first signal to determine a state of each of the neighbor APs based on the beacon frame signal received from each of the neighbor APs; comparing the first signal with predefined thresholds, classifying the neighbor APs into a detected AP, a candidate AP, and a target AP according to a result of the comparison, and storing the classification result in a neighbor AP list; and selecting an AP for the handover based on the classification result in the neighbor AP list.
Abstract:
A method for ranging in a wireless communication system and a communication apparatus and/or system using the same are provided. A base station (BS) device includes a terminal grouping unit to group terminals associated with the BS device into a plurality of groups, a radio resource assignment unit to allocate a radio resource assigned to the BS device to each of the plurality of groups, a transmission unit to transmit information about a radio resource assigned to a first group of the plurality of groups to a terminal included in the first group, and a receiving unit to receive a ranging signal from the terminal using the radio resource assigned to the first group, wherein the terminal grouping unit assigns the terminal to be included in a second group of the plurality of groups where the ranging signal is not received by the receiving unit.
Abstract:
An apparatus and system for registering profile information of a terminal in a network is provided. A profile information agent includes a receiver which receives a profile information transmission request message containing profile information associated with a terminal and a transmitter which transmits a profile information registration request message to a profile information server, the profile information registration request message including the profile information.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a method for fast handover in a wireless security data communication environment. The fast handover method for a mobile node connected to a network via an access point to perform a data communication in a wireless communication environment according to the present invention includes: performing an authentication while communicating with an authentication server having registration information about the mobile node via an uncontrolled port of the access point so as to make the mobile node connected to the network; performing a mobile Internet Protocol (IP) registration for binding a Care-of-Address (CoA) to a home agent and a correspondent node (CN) via the access point in parallel with performing the authentication; and opening a control port of the access point and relaying data transceived at the mobile node using the CoA when the authentication and the registration being successfully completed. Accordingly, a fast handover of the mobile node can be supported.
Abstract:
A handover management apparatus and method for heterogeneous networks is provided. The handover management method includes receiving a handover request notification from a serving access node (AN) that is located in a first wireless network and connected to a mobile node (MN) and extracting information from the received handover request notification. The extracted information relates to a target AN that is located in a second wireless network heterogeneous from the first wireless network. The method further includes changing the target AN, which is discovered from the extracted information, to an AN of the MN and storing information associating the mobile node with the target access node.
Abstract:
A method of providing a handover service to a mobile communication terminal supporting multi-modal communications, and a mobile communication terminal for performing the method are provided. More particularly, a method of eliminating an interruption of a data transmission service occurring during a handover between different communication networks, and a terminal for performing the method are provided. A method of providing a handover service of a mobile communication terminal supporting multi-modal communications can include: transmitting and receiving data to/from a corresponding node via a first access network and a second access network while simultaneously maintaining an association with the first access network and the second access network, determining a point in time of completing a handover registration, and releasing an association with the first access network after the point in time of completing the handover registration.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for providing a seamless communication service in a wireless communication system. The method includes transmitting a first message to a base station when an IP subnet has been changed due to movement of the portable terminal, the first message including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address of the portable terminal, receiving IP address information from the base station, which can be used in a new IP subnet, and configuring a new IP address based on the received IP address information.
Abstract:
A method and mobile terminal for allocating an Internet protocol (IP) address in a wireless network. A method of allocating an IP address in a wireless network which is applied to a system including a mobile terminal and an access router (AR) storing IP addresses, which are used on a connected link, in an address cache, managing the IP addresses, and performing a duplicate address detection (DAD) based on the IP addresses, the method including confirming whether a notification message, transmitted from the AR, is received, and automatically configuring an IP address and requesting the AR to perform the DAD with respect to the automatically configured IP address, when the notification message is received.
Abstract:
A handoff apparatus and method in FMIPv6 for seamless TCP packet transmissions. The handoff method includes steps of intercepting by a previous access router certain TCP packets sent from a correspondent node to a previous temporary address of a mobile node; and creating a TCP ACK by the previous access router in response to the certain TCP packets and sending by the previous access router the created TCP ACK to the correspondent node every time the certain TCP packets are forwarded to a new access router through a bi-directional tunnel. The handoff method has an advantage in that the packet transmission rate can be secured at the same level as the mobile node stays still during the performance of the handoff of the mobile node since the previous access router instead of the mobile node creates and sends the TCP ACK to the correspondent node during the performance of the handoff of the mobile node.
Abstract:
A fast handover method optimized for IEEE 802.11 networks. In a wireless local area system including a mobile terminal and at least two wireless access points (APs) that communicate with the mobile terminal over a unique radio channel, the fast handover method includes receiving a beacon frame signal from the serving AP and the neighbor APs of the mobile terminal; generating a first signal to determine a state of each of the neighbor APs based on the beacon frame signal received from each of the neighbor APs; comparing the first signal with predefined thresholds, classifying the neighbor APs into a detected AP, a candidate AP, and a target AP according to a result of the comparison, and storing the classification result in a neighbor AP list; and selecting an AP for the handover based on the classification result in the neighbor AP list.