Author: | B. Hurler, V. Kahmann, L. Wolf, M. Bechler | links: | DownloadBibtex |
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Source: | Proceedings of the International Conference on Wireless LANs and Home Networks, Singapore, Singapore, December 2001 | ||
Quality of Service in mobile ad-hoc networks has been considered
so far with respect to improving routing protocols mostly.
However, routing table updates may often be timeconsuming and
re-routing does not work in the case a mobile device offering an
service (e.g. an Internet gateway) is shutting down. In this
paper, we propose a flexible Management Entity that integrates
both network state changes and service changes into a management
information base within the IP layer. Service discovery protocols
are helpful in detecting service information. We show that our
Management Entity allows switching network technologies
efficiently and thus can avoid breaking TCP connections.