FIS 2009: Future Internet - FIS 2009 pp 15-24 | Cite as

A Local Knowledge Base for the Media Independent Information System

  • Carolina Fortuna
  • Mihael Mohorcic
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6152)

Abstract

Service oriented access in a multi-application, multi-access network environment poses interesting research challenges. One of these challenges refers to cross-layer interoperability among technologies. In this paper we introduce a knowledge base (KB) which contains local (user terminal specific) knowledge that enables pro-active network selection. We implemented a prototype which makes use of semantic technology (namely ResearchCyc) for creating the elements of the KB: the ontology, the concepts, facts and rules. We show on a case study how this system can be exploited by the Media Independent Information System (MIIS) of the IEEE 802.21 protocol.

Keywords

Vertical handover knowledge base service oriented network selection 

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  1. 1.
    Thompson, C.: The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time. Wired Magazine (March 17, 2009)Google Scholar
  2. 2.
    Gustafsson, E., Jonsson, A.: Always best connected. IEEE Wireless Communications 10(1), 49–55 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  3. 3.
    Saif, U., Paluska, J.M.: Service oriented network sockets. In: MobiSys, San Francisco, CA, pp. 159–172 (2003)Google Scholar
  4. 4.
    Fabini, J., Pailer, R., Reichl, P.: Location-based assisted handover for the IP Multimedia Subsystem. Computer Communications 31(10), 2367–2380 (2008)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
  5. 5.
    IEEE P802.21/D11.0 Draft Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Media Independent Handover Services (May 2008)Google Scholar
  6. 6.
    Wright, D.J.: Maintaining QoS During Handover Among Multiple Wireless Access Technologies. In: Int. Conf. on the Management of Mobile Business (2007)Google Scholar
  7. 7.
    Resource Description Framework (RDF), http://www.w3.org/RDF/
  8. 8.
    Web Ontology Language (OWL), http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
  9. 9.
    Matuszek, C., Cabral, J., Witbrock, M., DeOliveira, J.: An introduction to the syntax and content of cyc. In: AAAI 2006, p. 4449. AAAI Press, Menlo Park (2006)Google Scholar
  10. 10.
    Dutta, A., Madhani, S., Zhang, T., Ohba, Y., Taniuchi, K., Schulzrinne, H.: Network Discovery Mechanisms for Fast-handoff. In: BroadCom, Network and Systems, San Jose, California, October 1-5 (2006)Google Scholar

Copyright information

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010

Authors and Affiliations

  • Carolina Fortuna
    • 1
  • Mihael Mohorcic
    • 1
  1. 1.Jozef Stefan InstituteLjubljanaSlovenia

Personalised recommendations