Achieving "always best connected" through extensive profile managment

Lucian Suciu (1) , Jean-Marie Bonnin (1) , Karine Guillouard (2) , Bruno Stévant (1)

1 RSM - Département Réseaux, Sécurité et Multimédia
2 FT R&D - France Télécom Recherche & Développement

The integration of various access networks into a ubiquitous,yet heterogeneous, wireless environment is on the way. This evolution of the mobile network will give the end-user a greater choice of access tech-nologies, and, therefore, the decision to select the “best” interface andaccess network from many possible combinations has to be taken. The decision will depend on information such as: performances and capabilities of the available networks, requirements from applications, user preferences, or network operators’ constraints. Our work focuses on an advanced middleware which deals with profile management to supportthe interface automatic configuration and selection. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism supports the dynamic (re)mapping of the application flows by taking into consideration multiple selection criteria

Domaines: Multimédia [cs.MM]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Lucian Suciu, Jean-Marie Bonnin, Karine Guillouard, Bruno Stévant. Achieving "always best connected" through extensive profile managment. PWC 2004 : 9th international conference on personal wireless communications, September 21-23, Delft, The Netherlands, Sep 2004, Delft, États-Unis. ⟨hal-02379373⟩