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The Connectivity Control Framework: Enabling Session Continuity in Multi-Domain Environments

Authors:
Michelle Wetterwald
Christian Bonnet

Keywords: heterogeneous networks; IEEE 802.21; session continuity; multi-domain mobility; generic service enablers; device abstraction; autonomous systems.

Abstract:
Last decades have witnessed a massive evolution of mobile communications. When no agreement between the network providers exists, changing the attached network still means breaking the session and relying on the application to recover the lost data. A large set of mobility solutions has been proposed, which impact the network architecture or the applications communications methods. To cope with this issue, this paper presents an innovative technological framework, which applies changes to the terminal only and ensures the continuity of the session when roaming through independent wireless access networks. This framework is based on abstract interfaces hiding the specificities of technologies, a shared knowledge base constantly improved by system learning, and generic service enablers dedicated to specific connectivity tasks, such as a socket session handler. A simulated model based on a heterogeneous wireless playground is used to prove the benefits of this distributed system, which is easily suitable for deployment.

Pages: 86 to 92

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: July 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3468

ISBN: 978-1-61208-366-7

Location: Paris, France

Dates: from July 20, 2014 to July 24, 2014