Handover management for hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks

Fabrice Arnal (1) , Riadh Dhaou (2, 3) , Julien Fasson (2, 3) , Julien Bernard (4) , Didier Barveaux (4) , Emmanuel Dubois (5) , Patrick Gelard (5)

1 TAS
2 IRIT-RMESS - Réseaux, Mobiles, Embarqués, Sans fil, Satellites
3 Toulouse INP - Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse)
4 Viveris Technologies
5 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

Initially envisaged to support handover between different wireless 802.x network technologies, the IEEE 802.21 standard also appears as the good candidate for handover management in future integrated satellite / terrestrial systems. This paper presents an analysis of how this standard could be implemented in the frame of a realistic scenario and taking into account the current trends in wireless network and mobility architectures. Our solution is then evaluated by means of emulation over a DVB-RCS representative testbed, and based on an experimental MIH implementation. We finally show that seamless handover can nearly be achieved with very short service outages.

Mots clés: Test-bed.; Mobility; Test-bed; Handover; LTE; Satellite; MIH; 3GPP

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Fabrice Arnal, Riadh Dhaou, Julien Fasson, Julien Bernard, Didier Barveaux, et al.. Handover management for hybrid satellite/terrestrial networks. PSATS 2012 - 4th International Conference on Personal Satellite Services, Mar 2012, Bradford, United Kingdom. pp.9. ⟨hal-00750217⟩