ABSTRACT

As wireless LANs become more and moreubiquitous, the number and types of applications they support are ever increasing. As real-time performance requirements begin to emerge, the latency involved in a handover from one access point to another becomes crucial. CAPWAP and HOKEY are two suites of protocols being defined and standardized within the IETF that include support for fast handover. IEEE 802.11r is implementing extensions to the IEEE 802.11 base specification to directly support fast handover in the MAC protocol. This article details all three protocols, and compares their relative security properties, performance, and use cases.

The wireless LAN has become increasingly more popular over the last decade. Applications such as audio, video and voice have become important to users in a network environment. As the need for these real-time applications has increased, the handover latency during the movement of the mobile node (MN) has become crucial. A large number of wireless access points require a centralized architecture to manage, control and troubleshoot. The Control and Provision of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP) Protocol designed by IETF allows Wireless Termination Points (WTP) to be managed centrally by an access controller (AC). This paper briefly describes the CAPWAP , HOCKEY during the movement of mobile node. and IEEE 802.11R

architecture and proposes a network setup in which the handover latency is reduced

CONTENTS ABSTRACT Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background

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1.2 Existing Technology in chosen area 1.2.1 CAPWAP 1.2.2 HOCKEY 1.2.3 IEEE 802.11R

Chapter 2: DESIGN
2.1 CAPWAP Architecture 2.2 HOCKEY Architecture 2.3 IEEE 802.11R Architecture 3 4 5

Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY Chapter 4: CONCLUTION

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