Cellular SCTP: a transport-layer approach to Internet mobility

Author

Aydin, Ilknur ; Seok, Woojin ; Shen, Chien-Chung

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Delaware Univ., Newark, DE, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

285

Lastpage

290

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a transport layer mobility scheme termed Cellular SCTP, or cSCTP for short, based on the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP), for seamless soft handoff. We compare mobile IPv6 and two of its variants (mobile IPv6 with fast-handover and hierarchical mobile IPv6) with cSCTP on various aspects (especially the handoff process of micro-mobility). We also analyze the mobile IPv6 handover mechanism in detail to reveal the operations that constitutes extra delays or packet losses caused by handoffs. Furthermore, we describe the interworking of cSCTP with SIP for mobility management.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; cellular radio; delays; mobile communication; packet switching; protocols; Internet; SIP; cellular SCTP; delays; mobile IPv6 handover mechanism; mobility management; packet losses; seamless soft handoff; stream control transmission protocol; transport layer mobility scheme; Delay; IP networks; Internet telephony; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Mobile radio mobility management; Signal design; TCPIP; Terminology; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2003. ICCCN 2003. Proceedings. The 12th International Conference on

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7945-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2003.1284183

Filename

1284183