Handoff delay analysis and measurement for SIP based mobility in IPv6

This paper describes the session initiation protocol (SIP) based mobility in IPv6 and its performance in our laboratory testbed. For real-time mobile multimedia communication, we use SIP for signaling protocol as well as for supporting terminal mobility. While performance study for real-time mobile communication refers to several factors and their measurements, we analyze here only the handoff delay due to node mobility. In particular, we are interested to examine the delay incurred when a mobile node moves to a new link and perform the duplicate address detection (DAD) and router selection, and analyze the delay in each case. We notice that the IPv6 Linux implementation provides substantial amount of delay during node movement, which severely affects the performance of real-time applications. Therefore, we modify the Linux kernel and compare with the unaltered one. Finally, we conclude that a faster handoff is achievable in SIP based terminal mobility with intelligent modifications to unaltered Linux kernel.