Mobile Laboratory Model for Next-Generation Heterogeneous Wireless Systems

Abstract

Failure to integrate heterogeneous wireless systems generally makes it difficult, if not impossible, for the continuation of remote working or remote experiments when human operators and equipment coexist through networks in a collaborative environment. Mobile laboratories using ubiquitous mobile communication for next-generation heterogeneous wireless systems have prospects for increasing the operation of distributed communication and mobile ubiquitous systems. All “technology assessors” concur that tomorrow’s society will have access to smart objects (mobile devices or apparatuses, mobile equipment, e.g. robots) that contain “programs” that will assist with communication in everyday life. However one of the tomorrow’s challenges will consist of programming those objects to cooperate with and control telecommunications technologies. For a Mobile Laboratory to ensure consistent mobility in an environment, it must combine various wireless networks as a single integrated system. In this chapter we propose a Mobile Laboratory Model with mobile devices that take advantage of multiple mobile gateways by using Internet Protocol (IP) as the interconnection protocol to achieve the objective stated above.

Mobile open online laboratories: A way towards connectionist massive online laboratories with x-API (c-MOOLs)

“…In fact, a mobile laboratory in our pocket is already possible using a mobile smart device acting as a user interface (software) that also serves as host hardware interface for data acquisition and measurement as well as a storage repository for learning content based on the growing technologies of digital books trends. Regarding the computer network connectivity of mobile laboratories, we discussed in detail in [12] And the ongoing work in various international research teams on online laboratories on-line on the topic of the internet of things and the Web of things strengthen our statement that the mobile labs will take over conventional remote laboratory as many of us do until now. But efforts made so far will make us leapfrog to this inevitable trend which also exploit ubiquitous computing and cloud computing for mobile learning which milestones are also put in [13], [14].…”

Wireless interworking gateways/interfaces hypervisor for mobile laboratory

“…The vHI is designed, by applications, to be stored as an IP address. The hypervisor, wIGH, is mainly composed of a sub-system [1] for recording and processing wireless networks contextual information and profiles of laboratory applications called Information Processing System (IPS), of an Access Network Management (ANM) and a Virtual Interworking Gateway (ViG) for the pooling of wireless gateways/interfaces, see Fig. 1.…”

“…This one is a virtual HoA (Home Address) predefined and assigned by the access provider or Service Provider (SP) activating a wIGH wireless gateway for the mobile laboratory. Associated to the global HI, the vHI are registered in the RVS with priority criteria updated by the mobility controller [1] of the wIGH. In the RVS, a correspondence is recorded between the vHI and the vID of the associated wireless gateway.…”

“…The Smartphone has a Wi-Fi interface and a 3G. In [1], the proposed model of a new generation of mobile laboratory uses a central system to ensure its interconnection to the wireless systems available nearby. This central system is multi-gateways/multiinterfaces.…”

“…This paper proposes to manage multiplicity of interfaces using a wireless Interworking Gateway Hypervisor (wIGH) [1], without requiring laboratory applications to choose them the interface. wIGH incorporates subsystems in order to provide continuous mobility and a multi-homing context, respectively.…”