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What is Compulsory Handover

Encyclopedia of Internet Technologies and Applications
It means a handover when the MN detects that the route to its current GW is broken. Hybrid gateway discovery. An approach used by the MN to discover available GWs. In this approach, the periodical router advertisements are not flooded throughout the entire ad hoc network but only sent to MNs that are in the vicinity of the GW. MNs that are further away solicit advertisements reactively.
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Seamless Multi-Hop Handover in IPv6-Based Hybrid Wireless Networks
Tonghong Li (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-993-9.ch069
Abstract
Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are becoming popular due to the abundance of mobile devices, the speed and the convenience of deployment, and the independence of network infrastructure (Chin, 2002; Royer, 1999). It is desired that MANETs be interconnected to fixed IP networks so that the Internet services can be offered to MANET nodes. In such scenarios, commonly known as hybrid ad hoc networks, mobile nodes (MNs) are viewed as an easily deployable extension to the existing infrastructure. Gateways (GWs) are installed, which can be used by MNs to communicate with nodes in the fixed network.
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