Towards location based QoS-aware network selection mechanism for the nomadic mobile services

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  • Pravin Pawar
  • Bert Jan Van Beijnum
  • Wac, Katarzyna
  • Hermie Hermens
  • Dimitri Konstantas

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.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009
Publication date9 Apr 2009
Article number4784928
ISBN (Print)9781424423095
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 9 Apr 2009
Event2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 10 Jan 200913 Jan 2009

Conference

Conference2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009
LandUnited States
ByLas Vegas, NV
Periode10/01/200913/01/2009
Series2009 6th IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2009

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