Call Admission Control for Mobile Agent Based Handoff in Wireless Mesh Networks

Published

November 17, 2008

Author(s)

Yi Qian, Bo Rong, Kejie Lu, Michel Kadoch

Abstract

Wireless mesh network (WMN) has emerged recently as a promising technology for next-generation wireless networking. In WMN, it is important to provide an efficient handoff scheme, due to the frequent user mobility. To address this issue, we propose a mobile agent (MA) based handoff approach for WMN, where each mesh client has a MA residing on its registered mesh router. To guarantee quality of service (QoS) and achieve differentiated priorities during the MA based handoff, we develop a proportional threshold based optimal access bandwidth policy for call admission control (CAC) on the mesh router, and deploy a genetic algorithm (GA) based approximation to solve it. Simulation study shows that our proposed CAC scheme has a satisfying tradeoff between differentiated priorities and statistical access bandwidth in WMN handoff environment.

Proceedings Title

Proceedings of the IEEE ICC 2008

Conference Dates

May 19-23, 2008

Conference Location

Beijing, CH

Conference Title

IEEE ICC (International Conference on Communications)

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

call admission control, genetic algorithm, handoff, mobile agent, wireless mesh network

Citation

Qian, Y. , Rong, B. , Lu, K. and Kadoch, M. (2008), Call Admission Control for Mobile Agent Based Handoff in Wireless Mesh Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE ICC 2008, Beijing, CH, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=51348 (Accessed October 16, 2025)