Location-aware service discovery in next generation wireless networks

Abstract

The service discovery mechanism in next generation wireless network should be flexible to both location and environment change of the user which can be achieved by appropriately predicting the user mobility. As a result, effective user mobility prediction technique need to be designed for offering the services without affecting the user location. In this paper, we propose a location aware service discovery protocol in next generation wireless networks. This technique consists of three phases: Handoff triggering based on received signal strength of the base station (BS), Client mobility prediction as per its velocity and direction, BS selection with maximum available bandwidth and residual power. By simulation results, we show that our proposed approach minimizes the query latency.