Towards Location Based QoS-Aware Network Selection Mechanism for the Nomadic Mobile Services

Pawar, Pravin and Beijnum van, Bert-Jan and Wac, Katarzyna and Hermens, Hermie and Konstantas, Dimitri (2009) Towards Location Based QoS-Aware Network Selection Mechanism for the Nomadic Mobile Services. In: 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009, 10-13 Jan. 2009, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

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Abstract:	The advances in the area of location based computing will soon make it feasible to predict the availability of wireless networks and their application level Quality of Service (QoS) characteristics along the location and time dimensions. Such predictions are referred to as QoS predictions which are provided by the QoS Context Source (QoSCS) hosted in the fixed network. Herewith we present a network selection mechanism on the mobile device which requests QoS predictions as needed and uses these predictions combined with the current location and time to select the wireless network which satisfies QoS requirements of the services hosted on a mobile device. We evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme using simulations and compare the results with the other mechanism that only uses information locally available on the mobile device for the network selection. The results obtained from the simulations encourage further system development and prototyping.
Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item
Copyright:	© 2009 IEEE
Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Biomedical Signals and Systems (BSS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/68791
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CCNC.2009.4784928
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