A Fast Handover protocol (FMIPv6) in IETF working group is proposed to reduce the handover latency in Mobile IPv6 standard protocol. The FMIPv6 proposes some procedures for fast movement detection and fast binding update to minimize the handover latency. Additionally, to reduce the lost packets caused by a handover, this protocol introduces buffers in access routers. However, the handover laten...

Background: Patient care is shared between clinicians, and the effectiveness of their collaboration and information exchange will often determine the safety and quality of care provided. Handover enables clinicians to exchange information aboutprovision of patient care. Handovers are complex, their level of standardisation varies across departments and hospitals and they are influenced by the w...

In this paper, a handover mechanism that offers soft handover support between two different IP subnets for mobile clients is introduced. This handover is a part of a whole mobility support protocol consisting of several components. The handover is based on a protocol that introduces new methods for updating the location of mobile nodes. The handover is designed to cause no or minimal packet los...

This paper addresses handover decision instability which impacts negatively on both user perception and network performances. To this aim, a new technique called The HandOver Decision STAbility Technique (HODSTAT) is proposed for horizontal handover in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN) based on IEEE 802.11standard. HODSTAT is based on a hysteresis margin analysis that, combined with a utility...

BACKGROUND Changing patterns of work in the hospital setting mean different teams look after the same group of patients over the course of any given day. Shift handovers, or hand/sign-off, can give rise to miscommunication of critical information, a patient safety issue. How can we best prepare new doctors for handover? METHODS This was a qualitative, focus-group study, exploring the views of...

Handover (HO) mechanism is one of the critical operations in Mobile WIMAX. It takes place when a mobile station (MS) moves from a serving base station (BS) to another BS.The handover procedure is comprised of several stages; network topology advertisement, MS scanning, cell selection, handover initiation and decision and network re-entry including ranging, authorization, authentication and re-r...

Abstract This paper evaluates the handover performance of an optimized A3 event handover algorithm of LTE system, which is based on the target cell pre-bearer procedure in the high-speed railway (HSR) scenario. The paper introduces this handover algorithm and the handover signaling procedure based on the target cell pre-bearer procedure. These have been designed and implemented in a dynamic sys...

This paper addresses the Proxy Mobile IPv6 (PMIP) handover using bicasting in mobile/wireless networks. The bicasting scheme can be used to support the PMIP handover, which tends to waste the network resources of wireless links and incurs data losses during handover. We propose an enhanced scheme of PMIP handover, called the partial bicasting with buffering for PMIP (PBB-PMIP). In the PBB-PMIP ...

Effective handover between shifts is vital to protect patient safety and assist doctors with clinical governance. Poor quality, or inadequate handover can lead to serious harm for both patients and doctors. The weekend medical handover system among junior doctors at Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury, UK was cumbersome, inadequate and poor, restricting the ability to provide good patient care....

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to standardize and rationalize the handover, a critical and essential moment in common health care practices, through the realization of an efficient and standardized checklist, which could be used daily to ensure complete, thorough and effective handover. The principal purpose of the implementation of the handover is to reduce errors due to superficial and insuffici...