Smart Multihoming in Smart Shires: Mobility and Communication Management for Smart Services in Countrysides

TL;DR

This paper explores cost-effective wireless communication strategies, including multihoming and ABPS, to enable seamless smart service deployment in rural areas, validated through simulation results.

Contribution

It introduces Always Best Packet Switching (ABPS) for seamless network handover without infrastructure changes, tailored for smart shires.

Findings

ABPS enables seamless network handover.

Simulation confirms effectiveness of proposed approach.

Supports cheap, scalable rural smart services.

Abstract

This paper discusses on the need to focus on effective and cheap communication solutions for the deployment of smart services in countrysides. We present the main wireless technologies, software architectures and protocols that need to be exploited, such as multihop, multipath communication and mobility support through multihoming. We present Always Best Packet Switching (ABPS), an operation mode to perform network handover in a seamless way without the need to change the current network infrastructure and configuration. This is in accordance with the need of having cheap solutions that may work in a smart shire scenario. A simulation assessment confirms the effectiveness of our approach.