Development of a Novel Mobile Terminal Software Architecture supporting Energy Efficient Vertical Handover

에너지 효율적 이종망간 핸드오버를 지원하는 새로운 모바일 단말 소프트웨어 아키텍쳐 개발

  • 박승민 (한국전자통신연구원 임베디드SW연구팀) ;
  • 김원태 (한국전자통신연구원 임베디드SW연구팀) ;
  • 김대영 (충남대학교 정보통신공학과)
  • Published : 2009.01.25

Abstract

In this paper we propose a novel mobile terminal software architecture supporting energy efficient handover operation in heterogeneous networks. Since the legacy proposals for L3 handover are mostly dependent on IETF Mobile IP which has some problems in movement detection mechanism and no considerations on nested heterogeneous network environment as a result they make serious overload on networks and terminals by performing unnecessary handover in such network environments. The proposed architecture has terminal-oriented network selection and switching architecture where a mobile terminal periodically monitors network status and selects the optimum network, and reduces energy consumption by making L3 handover of Mobile IP to the finally selected network. The network selection method first picks up some candidate networks by considering a terminal speed and power consumption estimation, and determines the final target handover network among the candidates after evaluating multiple factors including QoS required by a terminal, network status, user preference and terminal battery status. Finally we verify the functionality and performance of the energy efficient vertical handover architecture by means of adopting it into a real mobile terminal.

본 논문에서 에너지 효율적 이종망간 핸드오버를 지원하는 새로운 모바일 단말 소프트웨어 아키텍쳐를 제안한다. 기존 방식은 L3 핸드오버를 IETF Mobile IP에 의존하고 있어 Mobile IP가 가지는 이동성 검출 방식의 문제점을 그대로 가지며 동시에 이종의 네트워크 환경에 대한 어떠한 지원도 없으므로 중첩된 다중망 상황에서 불필요한 핸드오버를 자주 수행하게 되어 네트워크와 단말에 심각한 오버로드를 유발시킨다. 이에 반해 제안하는 방식은 단말기반의 망선택 및 전환을 수행하는 구조로서 단말에서 망상태를 주기적으로 모니터링하고 최적의 망을 선택하여 결정된 망으로의 L3 핸드오버 명령을 Mobile IP에 지시하는 형태로 불필요한 에너지 소모를 최소화한다. 망선택 방식은 단말의 속도 기반 망선택 및 전력소모 예측 등을 통해 핸드오버 대상이 될 망들을 선별한 후 단말이 요구하는 QoS, 네트워크 상태, 사용자의 선호도 및 단말의 배터리 상태 등을 종합적으로 고려하여 최종적으로 최적의 네트워크를 선택하는 방식을 취한다. 마지막으로 본 논문에서 제시하는 에너지 효율적 이종망간 핸드오버 아키텍쳐를 실제 단말에 적용하여 그 기능 및 성능을 검증한다.

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