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With the rapid improvement of wireless networking technologies, current mobile devices can be potentially equipped with multiple interfaces to access different kinds of wireless networks. Thus, there have been many efforts to provide a seamless roaming between heterogeneous networks. However, most previous studies do not address how to select the best possible interface in terms of energy consumption. Therefore, in this paper, we propose to take advantage of accurate location positioning via WWAN interface, so that Mobile Nodes (MNs) obtain the information of hotspot range and completely turn off WLAN interface during idle state, leading to save energy consumption. Simulation results show that our mechanism outperforms existing approaches in terms of energy consumption and signaling overhead.
This research was supported by the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Advancement) (IITA-2006-C1090-0603-0028).
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Seo, S., Lee, S., Song, J. (2007). Location-Aware Signaling Protocol for WWAN and WLAN Interworking. In: Boavida, F., Monteiro, E., Mascolo, S., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4517. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72697-5_23
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