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During recent years, it has become evident that mobility functions will have a profound impact on current and future wireless networks. Users expect service connectivity anywhere and anytime without having to think about the underlying communication systems used at that particular moment in time.
On this background, this paper presents a ready-to-deploy implementation of a mobility framework that supports seamless communication and represents an important enabler for adaptive applications through its simple QoS feedback mechanism. The framework selects the best available network through a decision algorithm that takes advantage of both experience with different network types for certain types of services and a link performance monitoring concept. The impact of the proposed framework on performance in terms of processing and throughput overhead is also discussed.
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Chevul, S., Isaksson, L., Fiedler, M., Lindberg, P., Waltersson, R. (2007). Network Selection Box: An Implementation of Seamless Communication. In: García-Vidal, J., Cerdà-Alabern, L. (eds) Wireless Systems and Mobility in Next Generation Internet. EuroNGI 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4396. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70969-5_13
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