Handoff enhancement in mobile-IP environment

Author

Woo, William ; Leung, Victor C M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Volume

2

fYear

1996

fDate

29 Sep-2 Oct 1996

Firstpage

760

Abstract

Mobile-IP and its enhancement, internet mobile host protocol (IMHP), have been proposed to support host mobility over the current Internet. In a distributed mobile data networking environment, frequent handoffs between radio cells are likely to degrade end-to-end data transport performance. This motivates us to propose extensions to mobile-IP and IMHP to enhance transport performance by minimizing loss of datagrams during handoffs. The enhancement employs datagram buffering at the foreign agent serving the mobile host before a handoff. Simulation results illustrate the improvements in transport delays, particularly with respect to IMHP

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; data communication; delays; land mobile radio; performance evaluation; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; Internet; data transport performance; datagram buffering; datagrams loss minimisation; distributed mobile data networking; foreign agent; handoff enhancement; host mobility; internet mobile host protocol; mobile host; mobile-IP environment; radio cells; route optimization method; simulation results; transport delays; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Degradation; Environmental economics; Home automation; Performance loss; Roaming; Routing protocols; TCPIP; Tunneling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Universal Personal Communications, 1996. Record., 1996 5th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3300-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICUPC.1996.562676

Filename

562676