This paper proposes an optical wireless transfer agent method which realizes the continuous and swift data transfer of optical wireless terminals in optical wireless networks. The unguided wireless channel generally shows frequent link disconnections and propagation delays due to weak wireless links. Specially speaking, optical wireless channels have more vulnerable links and roaming propagation delays relative to the weakness of the previous RF channels due to their low signal connectivity and small geographic coverage. Conventional optical wireless network protocols did not consider any fault models about physical link faults. Consequently, they have shown data transfer inefficiency for both data link control and physical wireless link control. To overcome these optical wireless environmental problems, this paper suggests a new wireless access point (or base station) agent system, which provides wireless or mobile clients with previous link layer protocols compensated.

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2004 IEEE Military Communications Conference

• P. Clark and A. Sengers, "Wireless optical networking challenges and solutions," in Proc. IEEE Military Communications Conference (Monterey, CA, USA, Nov. 2004), pp. 416-422

Electronics Letters

• V. Vitsas and A. C. Boucouvalas, "Automatic repeat request scheme for infrared wireless communications," Elec. Lett. 38, 244–246 (2002) [CrossRef]

IEEE Personal Communications

• E. Ayanoglu, K. Eng, and M. J. Karol, "Wireless ATM: limits, challenges and proposal," IEEE Personal Communication 3, 19-34 (1996)

in Proc. 11th Management Committee Meeting

• A. D. Vendictis, F. Vacirca, and A. Baiocchi, "Experimental analysis of TCP and UDP traffic performance over infra-structure 802.11b WLAN," in Proc. 11th Management Committee Meeting (Ghent, Belgium, 2004), COST 279, Technical Document 279 TD(04)033

in Proc. IEEE Proceedings of the First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

• B. Emmert and A. Binzenh, "Efficient link failure detection and localization using P2P-overlay network," in Proc. IEEE Proceedings of the First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (Vienna University of Technology, Austria, Apr. 2006), pp. 732-739

in Proc. Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications

• C. H. Nam, S. C. Liew, and C. P. Fu, "An experimental study of ARQ protocol in 802.11b wireless LAN," in Proc. Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (Tropical Jewel of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 2002)

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

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• Y. M. Kwon, D. C. Kim, and J. I. Shim, "An embedded wide-band spiral inductor for 10 Gb/s optical transceiver applications," J. Opt. Soc. Korea 12, 49-51 (2008) [CrossRef]

Opt. Eng.

• I. I. Kim, R. Stieger, J. A. Koontz, C. Moursund, M. Barclay, P. Adhikari, J. Schuster, E. Korevaar, R. Ruigrok, and C. DeCusatis, "Wireless optical transmission of fast ethernet, FDDI, ATM, and ESCON protocol data using the terra link communication system," Opt. Eng. 37, 3143–3155 (1998) [CrossRef]

Personal Communications, IEEE

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Other

• D. Axtman, A. Ogus, and J. Reilly, "Infrared data association LAN access extensions for link management protocol, IRLAN," (Extended Systems Incorporated, Hewlett-Packard Corporation and Microsoft Corporation, Jul. 1997), IrDA Version 1.0
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• Infrared data association, http://www.irda.org/associations/2494/files/Publications/IrBurst˙MRD.doc, (IrBurst Research Group, Sep. 2003)

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