Cooperation between stations in wireless networks - Duke.pptVIP

Cooperation between stations in wireless networks Andrea G. Forte, Henning Schulzrinne Department of Computer Science, Columbia University Presented by: Azbayar Demberel Agenda Motivation Cooperative roaming Results Conclusion VoIP and 802.11: terminal mobility problem L2 handoff in 802.11 L3 handoff in 802.11 Handoffs due to mobility L2 handoff (~100-400 ms) Scanning (90%) Network authentication Re-association L3 handoff (~1000ms) Subnet change discovery IP address acquisition (90%) Application handoff Informing correspondent node of new IP address Cooperative roaming: goals and solution Fast handoff for real-time multimedia in any network Different administrative domains Various authentication mechanisms No changes to protocol and infrastructure Fast handoff at all the layers relevant to mobility Link layer Network layer Application layer New protocol: Cooperative Roaming Complete solution to mobility for real-time traffic in wireles networks Working implementation available Cooperative roaming: overview Stations can cooperate and share information about the network (topology, services) Stations can cooperate and help each other in common tasks such as IP address acquisition Stations can help each other during the authentication process without sharing sensitive information, maintaining privacy and security Stations can also cooperate for application layer mobility and load balancing Cooperative Roaming: AP caching Cooperative Roaming: AP caching L2 cooperation protocol L3 cooperation protocol Cooperative authentication Cooperation in the authentication itself not possible ? keys, certificates (sensitive info) Use relay node (RN) to relay packets during authentication No bridging delay Use timeout to achieve fairness What about RN mobility? Experiment environment 2 subnets/AP’s 4 nodes (1 roamer, 1 helper, 2 sniffers) Roamer moved between two AP’s: perform L2, L3 handoff …i.e. extremely simple! Experiment results Cooperative roaming vs. 802.11 C