Considerations over implementing IEEE 802.21 on a device powered by a mobile operating system

During the last years, software applications performing scenarios related to vertical handovers were revealed. However, the great majority of these demonstrators were designed and optimized for multimode notebooks, having a fair amount of processing power. This article aims to describe on how to implement and optimize the main components of the IEEE 802.21 standard on a device like a smartphone powered by a mobile operating system. Performance evaluations were made in this purpose showing reasonable delays, taking us one step closer to achieving a seamless vertical handover on a mobile terminal.