Handoff performance of mobile host and mobile router employing HMIP extension

Author

Omae, Koji ; Inoue, Masahiro ; Okajima, Ichiro ; Umeda, Narumi

Author_Institution

Wireless Labs., NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Kanagawa, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

20-20 March 2003

Firstpage

1218

Abstract

Mobility support for mobile networks will be more important as the mobile Internet becomes increasingly popular. To support mobile networks, the concept of prefix scope binding (PSB) is being discussed in IETF; however, by only applying this concept to Mobile IPv6 (MIP), the problem of packet loss still remains. In this paper, we apply the PSB concept to our proposed protocol, the hierarchical Mobile IPv6 extension with buffering function (HMIP-B), in which mobility anchor points buffer packets destined to the mobile hosts during handoff. We compare MIP and HMIP-B based on the handoff performance related to mobile networks by computer simulation. The simulation results indicate that our proposal improves the handoff performance in both TCP and UDP communications.

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; mobile communication; mobile computing; packet radio networks; protocols; telecommunication network routing; transport protocols; HMIP extension; HMIP-B; IETF; Internet; PSB; TCP communications; UDP communications; buffering function; computer simulation; handoff performance; hierarchical Mobile IPv6; mobile host; mobile networks; mobile router; prefix scope binding; Airplanes; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Delay; IP networks; Laboratories; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Proposals; Protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking, 2003. WCNC 2003. 2003 IEEE

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA, USA

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7700-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2003.1200546

Filename

1200546