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Handoff Processing for Mobile Agent in Distributed Environment

분산 환경에서의 이동 에이전트 핸드오프 처리

  • Park, Ki-Hyun (Department of Communications Engineering, Uiduk University)
  • Published : 2001.12.01
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Abstract

This paper presents a distributed mobile architecture aimed to support the mobility of mobile station. The proposed architecture considers three significant objects；mobile station (MS), mobile agent (MA) which logically represents mobile station in the wireline network, and trace agent (TA) to represent application server (AS) providing application service to mobile station. The mobile agent is made closely coupled with the mobile station while the trace agent is made closely coupled with the application server. During the handoff process, a flow control mechanism is considered to correct packet loss and out-of-sequence packets problem. The result of analytic additional time delay due to handoff processing is presented and simulation was performed to check the additional time delay as well as the correctness of handoff algorithm.

본 논문은 단말의 이동성을 수용하기 위한 분산 이동 구조에 대하여 다루고 있다. 제안된 구조에서는 세가지 분산 객체에 대하여 소개하고 있는데, 무선 이동 사용자가 이용하는 이동 단말(MS：Mobile Station), 유선망에서 이동 단말을 논리적으로 대신하는 이동 에이전트(MA：Mobile Agent), 이동 단말에 서비스를 제공하는 유선용 응용 서버(AS：Application Server)를 이동 환경에서 수용하기 위한 추적 에이전트(TA：Trace Agent)가 그들이다. 이동 에이전트는 이동 단말과 밀접한 관련을 갖고, 추적 에이전트는 응용 서버와 밀접한 관련을 갖는다. 핸드오프 과정에서 패킷 손실이나 순서 변경과 같은 문제점을 처리하기 위한 흐름 제어 기법이 고려되었으며, 제시된 알고리즘을 사용하는 경우의 추가적인 지연 시간에 대한 산술적인 결과를 제시하고 있다. 시뮬레이션을 통하여 알고리즘의 검증과 함께 산술적인 결과와 동일한 지연 시간을 확인하였다.

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