Author(s)

Toan Nguyen-Duc, Eiji Kamioka

Graduate School of Engineering and Science, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan.

Multiple wireless access technology has been embedded into a single mobile device as a fundamental feature, aiming to give end users ubiquitous access at any time. To allow the users to enjoy the ubiquitous connectivity, the mobile device has to consume higher energy for the simultaneous activation of multiple wireless interface and the continuous connectivity. In addition, a seamless vertical handover between the access technologies is a mandatory requirement to insure the quality, reliability and continuity of real time services. In this paper, the continuity of real time services as well as energy saving for mobile devices has been taken into account. The conceptual idea is that whenever traffic rate is lower than a threshold it will be smoothly handed over to a low energy consumption technology, i.e., Bluetooth. When the traffic exceeds the limitation of Bluetooth bandwidth, it will be handed over to a wider bandwidth technology, i.e., Wi-Fi. In the considered scenarios, the technologies are not interconnected; hence, the vertical handover management must be fully controlled by the mobile devices. The performance of the system including energy saving and maintaining the continuity of real time services has been evaluated by direct measurements in a real testbed.

Energy Efficient, Host-Controlled, Vertical Handover, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, SDN Extension, Real Time Services

Nguyen-Duc, T. and Kamioka, E. (2016) An Energy-Efficient Mobile-Controlled Vertical Handover Management for Real Time Services. Journal of Computer and Communications, 4, 59-75. doi: 10.4236/jcc.2016.417004.