Mobility Protocols and Handover Optimization: Design, Evaluation and Application

Acknowledgements

First and foremost, Ashutosh Dutta would like to express his sincere gratitude to his thesis advisor and coauthor Professor Henning Schulzrinne for insightful guidance, thoughtful coaching, and the rigors of research during his Ph.D. study at Columbia University. Many of the chapters of the book are based on Ashutosh's Ph.D. thesis, written at Columbia University under Professor Schulzrinne's supervision when Ashutosh was working at Telcordia Technologies. Ashutosh would like to thank his Ph.D. thesis committee members Professor Yechiam Yemini, Professor Nick Maxemchuk, Professor Dan Rubenstein, and Dr. Bryan Lyles for their feedback on his thesis research. He would like to acknowledge Professor Prathima Agrawal, Dr. Toshikazu Kodama, and the late Dr. Dave Sincoskie for their inspiration and mentorship during his employment at Telcordia, where he completed his Ph.D.

We would like to express our appreciation to our past and current employers Columbia University, Telcordia Technologies, NIKSUN, and AT&T for providing encouragement, freedom, and a flexible environment during the preparation of this book. In particular, the authors would like to thank the members of the Internet Real-Time (IRT) Lab of Columbia University, which provided a platform for discussing and conducting mobility-related research. We benefited from feedback from fellow IRT members through joint collaboration and regular weekly group meetings. In particular, we would like to highlight the contributions ...