Walkstation II project - Summary for 1993-1996

Contact

Purpose

• Provide mobile users with seamless data communication which is transparent for users as well as the underlying multimedia applications and the supporting fixed infrastructure.
• Explore integration of new wireless media into an integrated communications infrastructure.

• Integration of Mobile Stations into Fixed Networks [this web page]
  Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Teleinformatics
• Walkstation Integration
  Prof. Hannu Tenhunen, Electronic System Design
• Radio access in Wireless Information Networks
  Prof. Jens Zander, Radio Communication Systems

Publications - in Telecommunications area

Journal articles

1. George Liu and G. Q. Maguire Jr., "A Class of Mobile Motion Prediction Algorithms for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communication ", ACM International Journal on Wireless Networks, 1996 (in press).
2. George Liu, A. Marlevi, and G. Q. Maguire Jr., "A Virtual Distributed-system Architecture for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communications", ACM International Journal on Mobile Networks and Nomadic Applications, 2, 1996, pp. 77-86.
3. George Liu and G. Q. Maguire Jr., "A Mobility-aware Dynamic Database Caching Scheme for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communication ", International Journal on Distributed and Parallel Databases, Special Issue on Database and Mobile Computing, 4, 1996, pp. 1-18.

Proceedings

1. George Liu, G. Q. Maguire Jr., and A. Marlevi, "Performance Evaluation of a Mobile-Floating Agent Technique for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communications", Proceedings of 46th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'96), April 28-May 1, 1996, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
2. George Liu and G. Q. Maguire Jr., "A Predictive Mobility Management Algorithm for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communications", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC'95), Tokyo, Japan, November 6-9, 1995.
3. George Liu, A. Marlevi and G. Q. Maguire Jr., "A Mobile Virtual-distributed System Architecture for Supporting Wireless Mobile Computing and Communications", Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'95), November 14-15, 1995, Berkeley, California, USA.
4. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Mark T. Smith, Tomoki Osawa, Walkstation II project, 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Multi-Media Communications Workshop, Bristol, England, April 1-13, 1995.
5. George Liu and G. Q. Maguire Jr., "A Predictive Mobility Management Algorithm for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communications", Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC'95), Tokyo, Japan, November 6-9, 1995.
6. George Y. Liu, A. Danne, A. Marlevi and G. Q. Maguire Jr., "A Mobile-Floating Agent Scheme for Wireless Distributed Computing", Proceedings of Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'95), Toronto, Canada, September 27-29, 1995.
7. George Liu and Gerald Q. Maguire Jr., Efficient Mobility Management Support for Wireless Data Services, Proceedings of 45th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'95), Chicago, Illinois, July 26-28, 1995.
8. T. Ohsawa and G.Q.Maguire Jr., Bridging Functionality for Medium Access Control Sublayer-Applied to Distributed Foundation Wireless Medium Access Control, ICCC Wireless Computer Networks, pages 880-884, 19-23 Sept. 1994.
9. George Liu, "Exploitation of Location-dependent Caching and Prefetching Techniques for Supporting Mobile Computing and Communication", In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Calgary, Canada, July 11-13, 1994.
10. Frank Reichert, "The Walkstation Project on Mobile Computing", Proceedings of Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'94), pp. 974-978, 1994.
11. D. Kerek, H. Tenhunen, G. Maguire, F. Reichert, Direct Sequence CDMA Technology and its Application to Future Portable Multimedia Communication Systems, IEEE ISSSTA'94 - Third International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques & Applications, July 4-6, 1994, University of Oulu, Finland.
12. G. Maguire, F. Reichert, M. Smith, A Multiport Mobile Internet Router, Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference `94, Volume 3, pages 1435-1439, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1994.
13. D. Kerek, H. Tenhunen, G. Maguire, F. Reichert, The Walkstation Transceiver Design, Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference `94, Volume 1, pages 462-466, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1994.
14. A Klemets, G. Q. Maguire Jr., Frank Reichert, and M.T.Smith. MINT - A Mobile Internet Router, First IEEE International Symposium on Global Data Networking, pages 70-74, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Cairo, Egypt, December 13-15, 1993.
15. R. Hager, A Klemets, G. Q. Maguire Jr., M.T.Smith, and Frank Reichert, MINT - A Mobile Internet Router, Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference `93, pages 318-321. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, May 18-20, 1993.

Doctoral Theses

• Yuejin (George) Liu (Ph.D., 1996) The Effectiveness of a Full-Mobility Architecture for Wireless Mobile Computing and Personal Communications

Lic. Theses

• Yuejin (George) Liu (Lic., 1995), Efficient Mobility Management for Wireless Mobile Computing and Communications

M.Sc. Theses

• Fredrik Broman and Fredrik Tarberg, (M.S., 1996), Implementation and Analyses of the Mobile-IP Protocol
• Mikael Beerman, (M.S., 1996), "Implementation and evaluation of a Mobility Agent"
• Patrik Blomberg, (M.S., 1995), "Construction and Implementation of a Walkstation Mobile-Distributed File System Testbed"
• Pascal Guerin, (M.S., 1994) RadioNet Driver Implementation for the Mobile INTernet Router
• Markus Oelhafen, (M.S., 1994) SNMP Application for the MINT Router

In pictures

Acknowledgements