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(WLAN) and a Wide Area Network (UMTS) Traspaso Entre Una Red Inalámbrica De Área RIIT Vol.X. Num.2. 2009 167-184, ISSN1405-7743 FI-UNAM (artículo arbitrado) Handoff Between a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) and a Wide Area Network (UMTS) Traspaso entre una red inalámbrica de área local (WLAN) y una red de cobertura amplia (UMTS) J. Sánchez-García Departamento de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, CICESE, México. E-mail: [email protected] Luis A. Villaseñor-González Departamento de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, CICESE, México. E-mail: [email protected] Mario E. Vaquera-Flores Departamento de Electrónica y Telecomunicaciones, CICESE, México. E-mail: [email protected] Raúl Aquino-Santos Facultad de Telemática, Universidad de Colima, México. E-mail: [email protected] (Recibido: octubre de 2007; aceptado: diciembre de 2007) Abstract With the appearance of wireless data networks with variable cove rage, band width and handoff stra te gies, in addition to the growing need of mobile nodes to freely roam among these networks, the support of an intero pe rable handoff strategy for hybrid wireless data networks is a require ment that needs to be addressed. The current trend in wireless data networks is to offer multi media access to mobile users by emplo ying the wireless local area network (WLAN) standard IEEE802.11 while the user is located indoors; on the other hand, 3rd gene ra tion wire less networks (WAN) are being deployed to provide coverage while the user is located outdoors. As a result, the mobile node will require a handoff mechanism to allow the user to roam between WLAN and WAN environ ments; up to this date several strate gies have been proposed (Sattari et al., 2004 and HyoJin, 2007) in the lite rature, however, none of these have been stan dardized to date. To support this inte rope rabi lity, the mobile node must be equipped with configu rable wire less inter faces to support the handoff between the WLAN and the WAN networks. In this work a new algo rithm is proposed to allow a mobile node to roam between a wireless local area network (IEEE802.11) and a WAN base station (UMTS), while emplo ying IP mobi lity support. The algo rithm is implemented in simulation, using the Network Simulator 2. Keywords: Handoff, WLAN, UMTS, Mobile IP (MIP). Resumen Hoy en día exis te una gran varie dad de re des ina lámbri cas de da tos que propor cio nan co - ber tu ras va ria bles, di fe ren tes an chos de ban da que im ple men tan di fe ren tes es tra te gias de tras pa so; adi cio nal men te se pre sen ta una gran de man da por par te de los usua rios mó vi les por uti li zar li bre men te la co ber tu ra que pro por cio nan es te ti po de re des. Por lo an te rior, Handoff Between a Wire less Local Area Network (WLAN) and a Wide Area Network (UMTS) exis te una ne ce si dad de la im ple men ta ción de me ca nis mos de tras pa so que per mi tan la in te ro- pe ra bi li dad en los tras pa sos que se pre sen tan en re des ina lám bri cas hí bri das. La ten den cia ac tual, es la de pro por cio nar ac ce so pa ra apli ca cio nes mul ti me dia uti li zan do re des ina lám bri- cas de área local (WLAN), utili zan do el están dar IEEE 802.11 para inte rio r es; por otro lado, se es tán ins ta lan do re des ina lám bri cas de 3a ge ne rac ión para propor cio nar co ber tur a en ex te- rio res. Co mo re sul ta do, los no dos mó vi les re quie ren un me ca nis mo de tras pa so pa ra per mi tir la co mu ni ca ción en am bien tes WLAN y WAN; a la fe cha, se han pro pues to di ver sas es tra te gias en la li te ra tu ra (Sat ta ri et al., 2004 y HyoJin, 2007); sin embar go, ningu na de és tas ha si do es tan da ri za da. Pa ra ha bi li tar la in te ro pe ra bi li dad, el no do mó vil de be ser au to-con fi gu ra ble para per mitir la mo vili dad entr e las re des WLAN y WAN. En este traba jo se propo ne un algo - ritmo para per mitir el tras paso de un no do móvil dentro de una red ina lámbri ca de área local (IEEE 802.11) y una es tación base WAN (UMTS), utili zan do el sopor te de movi li dad IP. El al go rit mo se im ple men tó en si mu la ción uti li zan do la he rra mien ta Network Simulator 2. Descripto res: Traspa so, re des inalám bri cas de área local (WLAN), UMTS, IP Móvil (MIP). I. Intro duc tion charge an ad ditiona l fee to provide data services to their cus tom ers. With the large deplo y ment of WLAN access points There are two HOs types (Stemm et al., 1998): the (APs) in public places, high speed wireless data services hori zon tal HO that is defined like a HO between BSs are becom ing in creasingl y popu lar, but they are not (or APs) that are using the same wireless network tech- avail able ev ery where. Sim i larly, cel lu lar com pa nies are nol ogy, and the verti cal HO which takes place between migrat ing from second gener ation (2G) to 2.5 or 3G base stations that are us ing differ ent wireless network - technol ogies, thus allow ing them to offer higher data ing technol o gies; this work con siders the ver ti cal HO rate wide area network (WAN) connec tions that enable strategy, as well as, hori zon tal HOs be tween WLANs. faster data trans fers. Fu ture wire less multi me dia ter mi- The verti cal HO is divided in two cat e gories: an as- nals will be able to con nect to both WLANs and WANs, cendan t verti cal HO defined as a HO from a WLAN to- and switch between them without in ter rupting on go- wards a wireless network with larger cell size whose ing com mu ni ca tion ses sions. cover age in cludes the WLAN, and a de scendan t verti cal It is highly ad vanta geous to make use of WLAN net - HO defined as a HO towards a wire less network with works, when ever they are available, and be able to smaller cell size. To illus trate this pro cedure, figure 1 switch to a wide area cel lular net work when the WLAN shows a per son walking with a mo bile termi nal while is no longer available. This is because WLANs (like connected to the Internet. As the termi nal moves in side IEEE 802.11) offer high data rates at the expense of a re- the hy brid net work, several HOs must take place: start- duced cover age area (gener ally free), while WANs –like ing at point a), the termi nal passes from UMTS to a the Gen eral Packet Ra dio Service (GPRS) or Univer sal WLAN, this corre sponds to a de scendan t verti cal HO; Mo bile Tele com mu ni ca tions Sys tem (UMTS)– of fer point b) indi cates the HO between two WLANs, called great geograph ic cover age, but with reduced data rates. hor i zon tal HO; point c) illu s trates an as cen dant ver ti- The handoff (HO) proce dure is the mecha nism by cal HO. which a data con nection in progress between a mo bile ter mi nal and a cor re spond ing ter mi nal is trans ferred from an access point (AP) to an other one, or to a cel lu- lar net work base station (BS). The HO from a WLAN c) WLAN UMTS AP to a UMTS base station should be made with very b) low prior ity, while the HO from a UMTS BS to an AP should be made whenever a WLAN is avail able, as a re- a) WLAN sult of the increased bandwidth availabil ity in WLANs (Pahlavan, et al., 2000); in addi tion, the uti liza tion cost pa ram e ter must be con sid ered too, as cel lu lar op er a tors Figure 1. HO types: a) Descendant vertical HO, b) Horizontal HO, c) Ascendant vertical HO 168 RIIT Vol.X. Num.2. 2009 167-184, ISSN1405-7743 FI-UNAM J. Sánchez-García, Luis A. Villaseñor-Go nzález, Mario E. Vaquera-Flores and Raúl Aquino-Santos A HO is triggered based on the availabil ity of a net work Liu and Zhou (2005) pro pose an internetworking ar chi- and the prior ity pol icy used to se lect a net work. One of tecture between WLAN and UMTS, based on IPv6, the param e ters used to decide that a HO must take Mobile IP and the 802.16 air inter face (called Hybrid place corre sponds to the Re ceived Signal Strength In- Couplin g with Ra dio Access System).
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