Sub-second transport layer vertical handover using mSCTP in Android mobile devices

• Contemporary mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are increasingly equipped with multiple network interfaces that enable automatic vertical handover between heterogeneous wireless networks including WiFi and cellular 3G and 4G networks. However, the employed vertical handover schemes are mostly quite simple, and incur non-negligible service disruptions to ongoing sessions, e.g., video streaming and live conferencing sessions. A number of improved mobility management frameworks for these lightweight mobile devices have been proposed in the past recent years. Although these may result in negligible service disruptions, the vast majority of them are network- or integrated network- and link-layer based, and require support in the infrastructure to be successfully deployed. This paper demonstrates the feasibility of using an infrastructure-independent, transport-level vertical handover scheme on a smartphone for an application as demanding as video streaming. In our study, we used a previously developed Android-based mobility framework. The study shows that a standardized mobility solution based on the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) and its extension for Dynamic Address Reconfiguration (DAR), incurs a service disruption on par with comparable proposed network- and link-layer solutions.

Ämnesord

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Kommunikationssystem (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Communication Systems (hsv//eng)

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Telekommunikation (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Telecommunications (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

4G networks

Dynamic address reconfiguration

Heterogeneous wireless network

Integrated networks

Mobility management

Mobility solutions

Service disruptions

Stream control transmission protocols

Transport layers

Vertical handovers

Communication systems

Heterogeneous networks

Mobile devices

Robots

Smartphones

Video streaming

Mobile telecommunication systems

Computer Science

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