A routing-aware handover scheme for mobile IP

One of the main issues of mobile IPv6 is handover latency that causes service disruption time. Although plenty of proposals significantly reduce the service disruption time, they suffer from redundant routing that causes packet misordering and bandwidth consumption during the process of inter-domain handover. In this paper, we propose R-MIP, a routing-aware handover scheme for mobile IP, that minimizes the redundant routing during the process of inter-domain handover by utilizing forwarding routers. R-MIP consists of forwarding router discovery and proactive handover. We evaluate R-MIP in the view of packet misordering and bandwidth consumption, and clarify its efficiency. We also evaluate the impact of the forwarding router´s capacity since routers have limited resources. By strategically locating forwarding routers, e.g. next to the router that has peering to another domain, the redundant routing caused by inter-domain handover will be efficiently suppressed.