Using the Global Positioning System (GPS) to add Intelligence to Wireless Handover in WLAN

The progress of communication has led us to a point whereby it is desirable for the advanced wireless technology such as laptops and cellular phones to have seamless roaming when communicating or holding a session with another communication entity. It is therefore important that the underlying mechanisms and methods of packet delivery and handoff latency to a mobile communicating node be made robust with little disruption to real time communicating processes. The research proposed in this paper considers mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) improvement opportunities over an IEEE 802.11g using the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology