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MYHand: a Novel Architecture for Improving Handovers in NGNs

Authors:
Mario Ezequiel Augusto
Renata Porto Vanni
Helio Crestana Guardia
Mahdi Aiash
Glenford Mapp
Edson dos Santos Moreira

Keywords: NGN; MIH; Y-Comm; Handover Management

Abstract:
The on demand access, provided by Next Generation Networks (NGN), will allow users of mobile devices to choose from and connect to networks with no pre-established service contract. Besides signal strength, knowledge about different parameters of the available networks shall base the selection of the attachment point to use. No mechanism currently available provides the desired integrated support for network discovery and on demand access. This paper presents MYHand, an architecture for providing extended information in NGN scenarios. By using the IEEE 802.21 protocol Basic Schema and part of the Y-Comm architecture, MYHand improves the handover managed by mobile devices (user-centric management). This paper also presents an extension to the IEEE 802.21 Basic Schema, which is used by MYHand for extra information exchange between mobile devices and heterogeneous networks.

Pages: 211 to 218

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: June 23, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4030

ISBN: 978-1-61208-279-0

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from June 23, 2013 to June 28, 2013