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Reliable and Fast Hand-Offs in Low-Power Wireless Networks

dc.contributor.authorFotouhi, Hossein
dc.contributor.authorAlves, Mário
dc.contributor.authorZamalloa, Marco Zuniga
dc.contributor.authorKoubâa, Anis
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-15T11:57:39Z
dc.date.available2015-01-15T11:57:39Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractHand-off (or hand-over), the process where mobile nodes select the best access point available to transfer data, has been well studied in wireless networks. The performance of a hand-off process depends on the specific characteristics of the wireless links. In the case of low-power wireless networks, hand-off decisions must be carefully taken by considering the unique properties of inexpensive low-power radios. This paper addresses the design, implementation and evaluation of smart-HOP, a hand-off mechanism tailored for low-power wireless networks. This work has three main contributions. First, it formulates the hard hand-off process for low-power networks (such as typical wireless sensor networks - WSNs) with a probabilistic model, to investigate the impact of the most relevant channel parameters through an analytical approach. Second, it confirms the probabilistic model through simulation and further elaborates on the impact of several hand-off parameters. Third, it fine-tunes the most relevant hand-off parameters via an extended set of experiments, in a realistic experimental scenario. The evaluation shows that smart-HOP performs well in the transitional region while achieving more than 98 percent relative delivery ratio and hand-off delays in the order of a few tens of a milliseconds.por
dc.identifier.doi10.1109/TMC.2014.2307867
dc.identifier.issn1536-1233
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/5412
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherIEEEpor
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on;Vol.13 , Issue 11
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6747331por
dc.subjectMobilitypor
dc.subjectLow-power linkspor
dc.subjectWireless sensor networkspor
dc.subjectLink characteristicspor
dc.subjectHand-offpor
dc.subjectHand-overpor
dc.titleReliable and Fast Hand-Offs in Low-Power Wireless Networkspor
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage2633por
oaire.citation.startPage2620por
oaire.citation.titleMobile Computing, IEEE Transactions onpor
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