In order to support mobile users to handover seamlessly between heterogeneous networks, an IS is deployed to provide information about neighbor networks for mobile users.
The performance analysis provides us useful insights, which are currently being exploited in the extended middleware architecture for the vertical handover support to the nomadic mobile services.
The healthcare professionals indicated that they work without clear and shared protocols and that IT tools to support handover communication are rarely used, largely due to a lack of interoperability between systems from different vendors.
Overlap between adjacent cells is required in order to support handover.
These analyses also provide a basis for assessing the capability of current systems to support handover and for setting design requirements for proposed systems.
Cross-checking and cognitive artefacts were observed to support handover.
Positive patient involvement in cross-checking of information and communication to support handover were described by some.
Although all participants were English-speaking, one believed that officially documenting clinical information to support handover may be particularly important for non-English speaking patients (who were excluded from the current study).
Cognitive artefacts were perceived to support handover by being an archival form of delayed handover, as prompting memory during handover, or as a means to facilitate the cross-checking of information for accuracy, detail or to fill in perceived gaps as required.
Additionally, the MRA is coupled to the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCPP) server to support the handover process, as shown in Fig. 3.
