Leaf Initiated Join handover evaluation

In order to achieve full integration between wired and wireless ATM, a transparent mobile wireless interface to the wired ATM network is required. This paper describes a signalling framework for the handover: the handover is obtained only using standardised UNI 4.0 signalling, without the introduction of mobile specific signalling entities in the fixed network. It is a soft-forward handover scheme, enabling the handover to comply with the QoS guarantees of the connection. This is achieved using the Leaf Initiated Join (LIJ) capability standardised by UNI 4.0. The handover signalling is proposed taking the propagation characteristics at 60 GHz into account. The evaluation of the performance is performed analytically taking both Poisson and self-similar traffic into account. The research underlying this paper is performed in collaboration with the ACTS MEDIAN project AC006. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]