Handover Latency Reduction on Host-based Mobility in Multihomed Networks

Future pervasive networks will be constructed by various access networks, which will be managed by different operators. Host-based mobility mechanisms are promising for achieving efficient mobile computing in such an environment, because of their ability to handle the multihomed environment. However, the impact of switching network media will significantly degrade performance of communications with large RTT and high moving intensity. Therefore, we propose an adaptive handover scheme on host-based mobility to mitigate the impact of the switching media under such circumstances. This scheme switches the way of handover according to the network conditions. Furthermore, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed scheme through simulation results