@inproceedings{18e028a69c7a40838bd54fa24a98f953,
title = "OppoScan: Enabling Fast Handoff in Dense 802.11 WMNs via Opportunistic Probing with Virtual Radio",
abstract = "Recently with the sharing economy of WiFi, IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have been deployed exponentially in more places. With the booming increase of density of APs as well as mobile clients (MCs), the handoff between MCs and APs becomes more frequent than ever before. One problem of most existing network-assisted fast handoff mechanisms is that an AP needs to switch to different channel to probe MCs, thus disrupting its current communications. In this paper, we propose a fast handoff mechanism called OppoScan. OppoScan opportunistically leverages nearby MCs and APs to produce the required information of neighboring AP for handoff, thus significantly decrease the number of switching channel of APs. We have implemented the OppoScan in about 200 APs in two shopping malls and the results demonstrated the performance of the proposed scheme.",
keywords = "Fast handoff, network-assisted approach, opportunistic probing, proactive probing",
author = "Gang Yao and Cao, {Jian Nong} and Joanna Siebert and Xuefeng Liu",
year = "2017",
month = nov,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1109/MASS.2017.59",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings - 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2017",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
pages = "198--205",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2017",
note = "14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2017 ; Conference date: 22-10-2017 Through 25-10-2017",
}