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The design and evaluation of an end-to-end handoff management protocol

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We introduce an efficient protocol for end-to-end handoff management in heterogeneous wireless IP-based networks. The protocol is based on the stream control transmission protocol (SCTP), and employs a soft-handoff mechanism that uses end-to-end semantics for signaling handoffs and for transmitting control messages. The design goal of this protocol is twofold—first, to reduce the home registration delay, and, second, to eliminate the tunnelling cost which exists in current proposals, such as Mobile IP and its derivatives. Furthermore, we propose successive enhancements to the initial mobility management framework for achieving better scalability. We present strong analytical and simulation-based results that show performance improvements over existing approaches.

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    Antonios Argyriou & Vijay Madisetti

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Antonios Argyriou is a Ph.D. candidate in the school of electrical and computer engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He received his M.S. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003, and the diploma from Democritus University of Thrace in 2001, both in electrical and computer engineering. His research interests spawn in all aspects of computer networking while specific interests include wireless networks and multimedia communications. He is a student member of IEEE and ACM.

Vijay Madisetti is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He splits his time among teaching, research and entrepreneurship. His interests are design, prototyping, and packaging of electronic systems, virtual prototyping, embedded software systems, and computer networks. He obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the IEEE and the Computer Society.

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Argyriou, A., Madisetti, V. The design and evaluation of an end-to-end handoff management protocol. Wireless Netw 13, 61–75 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-006-1684-8

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