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The emergence of wireless networking necessitates continuous time connectivity to support end-to-end TCP or UDP sessions. Wireless networking does not provide reliable connections to mobile users for real-time traffic such as voice over IP, audio streaming and video streaming. Handover latency in Mobile IPv6 poses many challenges to the research world in terms of disconnecting users while roaming. Many efforts have been made to reduce the handover latency with focus either on layer 2 or layer 3. This paper presents the handover procedure of Mobile IPv6 and investigates various factors affecting the delay during network switch over. In this paper, a testbed environment is presented that includes two different wireless LAN networks using Universal Mobile IP for Linux (UMIP) implementation and Cisco routers. The aim is to present handover latency caused by multiple signals at layer 2 and layer 3 and make recommendations on how to reduce the total handover latency experienced by the MIPv6 protocol.
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Amin, M.A., Bakar, K.B.A., Abdullah, A.H., Nair, M., Khokhar, R.H. (2012). Handover Latency Measurement of Mobile IPv6 in a Testbed Environment. In: Meghanathan, N., Chaki, N., Nagamalai, D. (eds) Advances in Computer Science and Information Technology. Networks and Communications. CCSIT 2012. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 84. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27299-8_30
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