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In ubiquitous networks, Mobile Nodes (MNs) may often suffer from performance degradation due to the following two reasons: (1) reduction of signal strength by an MN’s movement and intervening objects, and (2) radio interference with other WLANs. Therefore, quick and reliable detection of the deterioration of a wireless link condition is essential for avoiding the degradation of the communication quality during handover. In our previous works, we focused on a handover decision criterion allowing MNs to maintain communication quality and stated the problems of existing decision criteria. Furthermore, we showed the effectiveness of the number of frame retransmissions through simulation experiments. However, a comparison between signal strength and the number of frame retransmissions could not be examined due to the unreliability of signal strength in simulations. Therefore, in this paper, by employing FTP and VoIP applications, we compare signal strength and the number of frame retransmissions as a handover decision criterion with experiments in terms of (1) and (2) in a real environment. Finally, we show the problems of signal strength in contrast to the effectiveness of the number of frame retransmissions as a handover decision criterion.
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Tsukamoto, K., Yamaguchi, T., Kashihara, S., Oie, Y. (2006). Experimental Evaluation of Decision Criteria for WLAN Handover: Signal Strength and Frame Retransmission. In: Youn, H.Y., Kim, M., Morikawa, H. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing Systems. UCS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4239. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11890348_19
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