An enhanced buffer forwarding control scheme in smooth handover to improve TCP performance

Author

Lin, Huasheng ; Fan, Rui ; Zou, Shihong ; Lin, Yu ; Cheng, Shiduan

Author_Institution

Nat. Lab. of Switching Technol. & Telecommun. Networks, Beijing Univ. of Posts & Telecommun., China

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

476

Abstract

Several handover schemes, such as smooth handover and fast handover, have been proposed to realize seamless handovers in mobile environment. However in our simulation, even if smooth handover in mobile IPv6 are implemented, TCP can not always be ensured to achieve better performance due to packets forwarding burst. Based on the performance analysis of TCP with the support of smooth handover, this paper proposes an enhanced buffer forwarding control scheme in smooth handover to improve TCP performance. In our scheme, a packet-pair probing technology is adopted to estimate the bandwidth of the new path from previous router (Prtr) to mobile node (MN), which is used by Prtr to control the buffered packets forwarding. Finally, simulation results demonstrate that smooth handover with our scheme can achieve better TCP performance than that without it.

Keywords

Internet; mobile radio; telecommunication control; telecommunication network management; transport protocols; Prtr; TCP performance; enhanced buffer forwarding control scheme; fast handover; mobile IPv6; mobile environment; mobile node; packet-pair probing technology; packets forwarding burst; smooth handover; Bandwidth; Bismuth; Electronic mail; Error correction; Intelligent networks; Loss measurement; Performance analysis; TCPIP; Telecommunication control; Telecommunication switching;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2003. PIMRC 2003. 14th IEEE Proceedings on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7822-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2003.1264317

Filename

1264317