Abstract
Mobile IPv6 permits the Mobile Node (MN) to maintain the continuous connectivity to the Internet when it moves from one access router to another. Due to both link switching delay and IPv6 protocol operation during the handover process, packets destined to the MN can be delayed or lost. This paper proposes a solution to improve the Mobile IPv6 handover performance over wireless network by introducing a new entity - Extension Handover Control Function (E-HCF). E-HCF could send the decisive control message to MN to accelerate the handover process and manage the traffic belonging to MN to reduce the packet loss. With a comparison between Mobile IPv6 and our E-HCF solution, we show that our solution allows us providing low-latency and low packet loss for real-time services during the handover.
This work was supported in part by the international project PRA-SI under Grant SI04-03.
Chapter PDF
References
Perkins, C.: IP Mobility support for IPv4. RFC 3220, IETF (January 2002)
Johnson, D., Perkins, C., Arkko, J.: Mobility Support in IPv6. RFC 3775 (June 2004)
O’Hara, B., Petrick, A.: IEEE 802.11 Handbook- A Designer‘s Companion, 1st edn. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (1999)
Soliman, H., Castelluccia, C., Malki, K., Bellier, L.: Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 mobility management (HMIPv6). RFC 4140 (August 2005)
Koodli, R. (ed.): Fast Handovers for Mobile IPv6. RFC 4068 (July 2005)
Shin, B.-D., Ha, K.-J.: An Improvement of Handoff Latency by Virtual MAPs for HMIPv6. In: Proceedings of the IEEE CIT 2006, p. 78 (2006)
Pack, S., Nam, M., Choi, Y.: Design and Analysis of Optimal Multi-Level Hierarchical Mobile IPv6 Networks. Wireless Personal Communications (WIRE) 36(2) (2006)
Mishra, A., Shin, M., Arbaugh, W.: An Empirical Analysis of the IEEE 802.11 MAC layer Handoff Process. ACM Computer Communications Review 33(2) (2003)
Ramani, I., Savage, S.: SyncScan: Practical Fast Handoff for 802.11 Infrastructure Networks. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Infocom Conference, Miami, FL (March 2005)
IEEE 802.11f: Recommended Practice for Multi-Vender Access Point Interoperability via an Inter-Access Point Protocol Access Distribution Systems Supporting IEEE 802.11 Operation. IEEE Standard 802.11 (Jan. 2003)
Chaouchi, H., Antunes, P.: Pre-handover signaling for QoS aware mobility management. International journal of network management 14, 367–374 (2004)
Wei, G., Wei, A., Xu, K., Deng, H.: Handover Control Function Based Handover for Mobile IPv6. In: Alexandrov, V.N., van Albada, G.D., Sloot, P.M.A., Dongarra, J. (eds.) ICCS 2006. LNCS, vol. 3994, pp. 17–24. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Wei, G.: E-HCF function and messages formats. Research report 2006-145, University of Paris XII –Val de Marne (2006)
Lai, W.K., Chiu, J.C.: Improving Handoff Performance in Wireless Overlay Networks by Switching Between Two-Layer IPv6 and One-Layer IPv6 Addressing. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication 23(11) (2005)
Zhu, C., Yang, O.W.W., Aweya, J., Oullette, M., Montuno, D.Y.: A comparison of active queue management algorithms using the OPNET Modeler. IEEE Communications Magazine 40(6), 158–167 (2002)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Wei, G., Wei, A., Xu, K., Dupeyrat, G. (2007). Optimization of Mobile IPv6 Handover Performance Using E-HCF Method. In: Shi, Y., van Albada, G.D., Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2007. ICCS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72590-9_68
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72590-9_68
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-72589-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-72590-9
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)