In this article an efficient routing protocol has been identified for real time and non -real time applications.The MS movement direction prediction (MMDP) based MS scanning is implemented to overcome the mobile WiMAX handover issues. Here the authors have used the MMDP method to reduce the number of scanning's required for the handover instead of scanning for all neighboring BSs and suggested that on using the concurrent scanning procedure for the best two TBS high quality hand over support in Mobile WiMAX can be achieved. On performing concurrent scanning of two best target base stations, issues like ideal sectors, network congestion and fast change in RSS are proposed to be minimized.The proposed algorithm targets to meet the quality of service requirements. Performance results for simulation scenarios are presented and discussed.
KeywordsRouting protocols, MMDP scanning, concurrent scanning.
1.INTRODUCTION
HAND OVER
Methodology:Hand over is required in mobile wireless communication to maintain uninterrupted services during user's movement from one location to another. This can affect the QoS & capacity of mobile broadband network. The hand over techniques can be divided into soft hand over (make_ before_ break) & hard over (break_before_make). In Soft hand over connection, the serving base station (SBS) is terminated before a mobile station(MS) switches to another base station. Break time is zero during hand over and spectral efficiency is reduced.. Its counterpart Hard Handover (HHO) uses a break before make approach. Mobile WiMAX network uses packet switching with mostly bursty delay tolerant data traffic. Therefore HHO is used in mobile WiMAX.The intersection between the two received signal strength (RSS) lines is the criteria for Hand off (HO) trigger. Frequent HO should be avoided, and a HO is triggered only when the difference between RSS of serving Base Station (BS) and target BS (TBS) is below the target value. Handover takes place in two main phases; the network topology acquisition, also known as pre-handover phase, and the actual handover phase. The first phase includes network topology advertisement, neighboring Base Station (nBS) scanning and association. The second phase includes handover decision and initiation, and network re-entry synchronization and ranging with a TBS. In the scanning process, the MS must synchronize with all advertised (nBS) to select the best BS candidate for the incoming handover action. Without terminating the connection between the Serving Base Station (SBS) and Mobile Station (MS), the SBS will schedule the scanning intervals or sleep-intervals to MS for scanning.
MMDP SchemeThe SBS keeps track of the MS movement location and trajectory based on LBS as it is supported in the new WiMAX standard of IEEE 80216m. Based on [10], the BS coverage area is divided into zones and sectors as shown in Figure 1. The hexagonal BS structure is divided into three zones: no handover (No-HO) zone, low handover (Lo-HO) zone and high handover (High-HO) zone based on signal quali...