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As increasing demands for mobile communications, importance of utilizing wireless local area network (WLAN) rapidly increases in order to assist cellular networks and to reduce communication cost. In this paper, we propose a WLAN connection management scheme which helps mobile node (MN) to appropriately access WLANs considering minimum required data rates of ongoing services. Moreover, in order to evaluate performance of proposed and conventional connection management schemes, we construct testbed consisting of WLANs and 3GPP high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) network. In addition, we implement server and client applications on MN having both WLAN and HSDPA interfaces. From test results, we find that the proposed connection management scheme can provide steadier and higher data rate than the conventional connection management scheme adopted in Google Android operating system (OS).
This research was supported by Future-based Technology Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2010-0020727).
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Cho, H.W., Bae, S.J., Choo, H., Chung, M.Y. (2011). Implementation of WLAN Connection Management Schemes in Heterogeneous Network Environments with WLAN and Cellular Networks. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6786. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21934-4_4
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