TY - GEN
T1 - Implementation of a multihoming agent for mobile on-board communication
AU - Yao, Jun
AU - Duan, Yi
AU - Pan, Jianyu
AU - Lan, Kun Chan
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - A research topic that is becoming increasingly popular is that of on-board mobile communication, where users on a vehicle are connected to a local network that attaches to the Internet via a mobile router and a wireless link. However, wireless data transmission is less efficient, prone to error and unreliable in a mobile environment. There is a need to make use of multiple access links simultaneously (so-called multihoming), to improve the aggregate bandwidth and the overall service availability on a mobile network. In this paper, we introduce a novel on-board Multihoming Agent for supporting the future on-board multihomed mobile routers. The Multihoming Agent can intelligently stripe user traffics into multiple active WAN interfaces based on the policy in use and the real-time network status and automatically shift user traffics from unavailable links to available ones. We show that by properly deploying the policies defined in the Policy Database and continuously collecting network status, a user can run intelligent load distribution algorithms on top of the mobile router to improve network performance and reliability via our Multihoming Agent.
AB - A research topic that is becoming increasingly popular is that of on-board mobile communication, where users on a vehicle are connected to a local network that attaches to the Internet via a mobile router and a wireless link. However, wireless data transmission is less efficient, prone to error and unreliable in a mobile environment. There is a need to make use of multiple access links simultaneously (so-called multihoming), to improve the aggregate bandwidth and the overall service availability on a mobile network. In this paper, we introduce a novel on-board Multihoming Agent for supporting the future on-board multihomed mobile routers. The Multihoming Agent can intelligently stripe user traffics into multiple active WAN interfaces based on the policy in use and the real-time network status and automatically shift user traffics from unavailable links to available ones. We show that by properly deploying the policies defined in the Policy Database and continuously collecting network status, a user can run intelligent load distribution algorithms on top of the mobile router to improve network performance and reliability via our Multihoming Agent.
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U2 - 10.1109/VETECS.2005.1543435
DO - 10.1109/VETECS.2005.1543435
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:34047100890
SN - 0780388879
SN - 0780393929
SN - 9780780393929
T3 - IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference
SP - 896
EP - 900
BT - 2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2006-Spring - Proceedings
T2 - 2006 IEEE 63rd Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2006-Spring
Y2 - 7 May 2006 through 10 July 2006
ER -