An Architecture for Acquisition and Provision of Hotspot Coverage Information
Conference: European Wireless 2005 - 11th European Wireless Conference 2005 - Next Generation wireless and Mobile Communications and Services
04/10/2006 - 04/13/2005 at Nicosia, Cyprus
Proceedings: European Wireless 2005
Pages: 7Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Lück, Stephan; Scharf, Michael; Gil, Jorge (University of Stuttgart, Institute of Communication Networks and Computer Engineering, Stuttgart, Germany)
Abstract:
Cellular mobile networks will be more and more complemented by high speed wireless hotspots. In order to use this additional access technology efficiently, terminals must be able to discover the wireless hotspots located around them. Classical methods based on measurements on the physical network interface are not sufficient because they neither can detect neighbouring hotspots nor are they well-suited for multi-mode interfaces, which can use only one access technology at once. Therefore, we suggest to use a model-based access discovery method, which applies queries to a location-based data model. In this paper, we describe how to collect field strength measurement from mobile terminals, how to convert them to polygons describing the coverage of wireless hotspots, and how to retrieve the coverage information.